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Tu-Ner: T1-Contact Information
BySpringing from that background, T1-Contact Information plays to the most clever and ambitious strengths all three. If the sound is full of touchstones familiar from their past historiesheavy monster grooves, extensive flights into space, abrasive sonic textures like the screams of angry robotstheir adventurous chemistry keeps taking them into fresh territory with each outing and each new combo. This one is two hours of unhesitating jumps into the deep end, like the amorphous groov-a-thons or Can or electric Miles Davis gone full gritty cyberpunk.
Good luck trying to figure out which parts are rehearsed, merely sketched, or spun on the spot; they stomp and flail with equal abandon through all of it. Reuter's guitar squeals and swirls through the sky, always on the verge of unsettling. Mastelotto keeps the pounding solid as a slab of metal while finding space for his trademark squeaks and percussive allsorts. Gunn's doomy bass lines twine with the clatters in fluid step, then turn into more clouds of haze when everyone decides to float for a while. A couple spots involve playing with vocoders for a little extra dystopian edge. It's a hard-hitting vision they offer, yet always an unsettlingly fascinating onethe future is apparently loud and heavy, but always with enough primal wildness to match (if not overtake) the machines.
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CD1: Crowfin (Having Some Fun Now); 31; Apple Turtle; On the Other Side; Contact Information. CD2: Poem for a Sad Horse; Forcibly Taken Into the Future; Moses; Poodles.
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Title: T1-Contact Information | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Self Produced
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T1 - Contact Information
Self Produced
Pat Mastelotto
Trey Gunn
King Crimson
Markus Reuter
Stick Men
Can
Miles Davis