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ZENDEE
- Live in Lublin
(audiotong live collection 2005) |
Reviews:
ZENDEE Live in Lublin (Audiotong, pl)
During mid-2004, Hong Kong's DJ Dee (a.k.a., Li Chin Sung) and Krakow's Zenial collaborated live three times during the former's visit to Poland. Given precisely how disorientating and haphazard much of Li Chin Sung's album, Past (Tzadik, 1996), is, the work here has arrived as a comparatively polite surprise.
Beginning with a series of soft tics and textures apparently generated from the sounds of water, a wonderfully steady heartbeat pulse soon rises and becomes the focal point before seguing into a sequence of well-mannered rasps & strands of space-whisper never once detracting from the overall atmosphere. It is only a few minutes further on when some slightly more abrasive babbling consumes proceedings for a short while but, even then, the general effect falls nearer, say, The Hafler Trio's outbursts rather than Masami Akita's meltdowns.
An array of other crackles, dizzy shimmers, whirrs and suchlike then continue to float into view, hang around long enough to greet and interact with eachother before sliding towards a satisfaction they've done their job without outstaying their welcome. Further still, and a few minutes prior to the set's close at just over 27 mins. total, another muffled micro-beat goes into combat with a platoon of malfunctioning robots, bringing everything to a suitable climax.
On the whole, it's a comfortably 'morphic listen anchored to the juncture where control can fall over a precipice at any point. And, alongside Germany's excellent Minit and A.F.R.I. Studios, very little really compares in today's rather crowded environment of electronics & laptop artists. Which is nothing less than refreshing.
(Richo,
Adverse Effect)
ZENDEE - LIVE IN LUBLIN (MP3 by Audio Tong)
Polish composer Zenial has been reviewed before, in Vital Weekly 420, but here he works with one DJ Dee from Hong Kong, as Zendee. DJ Dee is also known as Li Chin Sung, whose 'Past' CD was released by Tzadik. Together they played three concerts in Poland and this is one. I wasn't blown away by Zenial's first release, but the twenty-seven some minutes captured here make up things. It's far away from Zenial's solo work, with it's hasty sounds. Instead the two go into a dense, microscopic world of deep ambient, via the use of software synthesizers and clouded beats derived from the use of a needle that keeps skipping an empty groove. It grows steadily over the length of the concert, until it bursts out at the end, although the real noise is never reached. A dense as well as intense layered sound, that perhaps worked better when heard live, but nevertheless is a good documentation of events.
(FdW,
Vital Weekly)
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