Silver Red
What:
Silver Red
Who:
Qua
On:
Someone Good
Where:
Someone Good, Vitamin Records, record shops
Related links:
MySpace / Kings of Power 4 Billion % / Mush Records
Who's blazing a flare-trail across the face of music's electronic future, then? Who's keeping the dream of hard-patched classicism after Jim O'Rourke's overseas model alive? Few, but Cornel Wilzcek is the hen's-tooth goods, a bone-fide local Reanimator who, as Qua, makes music that sounds and is performed inconceivably - a new, heavy kind of listen that RMIT would call 'experiential'; learned, clear-eyed and shot-through with winning feelings of discovery. New album Silver Red is fantasy mix of Terry Riley and Xenarkis' tonal mindfulness, Monolake's soul feeling for software and the best of 90s digi-pop pastoralism.
Of Silver Red's four tracks, the first three are lengthly 'live passes' of session-produced instrumental material - most noticeably piano, guitar and drums. Clusters of piano tapping, insane John McEntire drumming styles and some clean, ringing guitars surface untouched here and there, but it's Wilzcek's customized, electronic arrangement that's the rub - whipping sounds from all angles into lush, rhythmic assembly and transmuting them into epic robot sunrise scenes. Closing track, 'One Second' is a shorter, Spagetti-Western number, influenced perhaps by Wilzcek's day job as a soundtrack composer of choice.
Release: Album
To Cure: An empty dancefloor
Keywords: QUA, Someone Good, Electronica
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