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TOWARDS THE MYSTERIUM

The Fractured Dimension

 

RIO/Avant-Prog

3.66 | 20 ratings

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Windhawk
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3 stars A pretty wild ride offered by US trio The Fractured Dimension here, with a minor army of guest musicians helping out in this endeavour.

And to be blunt: If expressions like pleasant, melodic, accesible, driving or structured are amongst the ones you might use when describing the music you like best, this is probably not a CD you'd want to investigate.

With what in my ars sounds like pretty strong influences from free form jazz, especially in the rhythms department, dissonances, arhythmic excursions and chaotic disharmonies is the name of this particular game.

From multiple layers of frantic noisescapes to gentler ventures with a more laidback, subtle use of dissonant effetcs it's the fragmentation of themes that is the main issue here - to provide a constant melodic theme within a sonic chaotic inferno or the resonances of selected notes forming a strong theme within the gentler efforts. This is taxing and challenging music; not always succesfull either but intriguing and interesting enough when it works.

An album that warrants some investigation by those who love boundary-breaking, avant-style musical endeavours.

Windhawk | 3/5 |

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