PIECES FROM A BROKEN STAR

"Pieces from a Broken Star", the stimulating title for the first album of the Cielo Drive project led by Oscar Sanfiz, draws on many of the best discoveries that emerged in the experimental consciousness of the past 20th century.

It combines motoric-driven kraut improvisations and cosmic, noise-inducing passages that induce trance and wink at the territories explored by early Neu, with captivating industrial experimental movements of Psych TV and the neo-tribalism of SPK's "Zamia Lehmani" that flow with a captivating sense of abstraction.

The pieces of this imploded broken star have wandered through space divided into 9 cosmic fragments that converge and finally recompose themselves in "Star", a brilliant and vibrant 12-minute development that floats at first to gradually impose a magnetic, almost narcotic ostinato, before falling into a spaced-out and hypnotically metronomic extension.

Uncompromising, innovative, experimental, and as well-executed as it is narratively structured, Cielo Drive's "Pieces from a Broken Star" embraces synchronicity and chance alike to capture the moment in these snapshots of industrial upheaval, brooding ambient post-rock, and psychedelic motorik.

Wrapped in an exhilarating cover, this is some of the boldest, most insolent, and most refreshing stuff I've heard lately.