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Freefall | Strongly Imploded
Gr 073 | Gruen CD-R | Silver > [order]
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Domenico: Did you like the drawing?
Fran: It was good. But a bit disorganised..
Domenico: Disorganised? You create that music and you tell me my drawings are disorganised!?
Domenico falls over laughing hysterically…and laughs hysterically for 10 mins
Fran: What are you laughing at?
Domenico: Nothing.. nothing.. (dying of laughter and rolling around on the floor).
1. Inconspicuous insects and bawdy secrets
2. Night voice with robotic interference and agitation
3. An improvised freefalling deconstruction over time
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4. Plowing through the forest
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5. Felicitous freefall
6. Hesitant ham (words of the street)
7. Triumphant march without tattoo or direction
8. Illusionary antics with spiralling cyborgs
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8 Tracks (41′12")
CD-R (50 copies)
Gruenrekorder / Germany / 2010 / Gr 073 / LC 09488
Mike Wood | foxy digitalis
Freefall is a four-piece from Italy specializing in improvised noise and free jazz. They use guitar, reeds and drums along with synth and electronic manipulations gives the eight tracks on “Strongly Imploded” a bite and occasional groove often missing from such outings.
With a slow buildup to a jazzy noise mash, using each in ways at once familiar and odd, “Inconspicuous insects and bawdy secrets” opens the set with a flourish. On “An improvised freefalling deconstruction over time,” there is furtive noise throughout, jerking to a halt unexpectedly, careening squealing guitar feedback, sarcastically lazy western harmonica riff in the background. “Plowing through the forest” features a disturbing, digestive groove, the sound of a saxophone choking on its own reed, or eating itself alive.
Songs like “Hesitant ham” or “Triumphant march without tattoo or direction” are more generic free jazz freakout: blaring and distorted horns that sound almost conservative in their keeping to recognizable Free tropes. The closer, though, “Illusionary antics with spiraling cyborgs,” is brilliant, a frantic tribal noise intro, that slowly dissolves into a sustained low hum, and an industrial fadeout to a piece that began like ritual music for cannibals.
Shamefully limited to only 50 copies and coming in a bulky tin cigarette case, “Strongly Imploded” will probably be more read about than heard. But Freefall deserves to be heard. Their chaos is fun and ferocious, and even with the occasional clunkers, they make daring and roaring music that is quite out and adventurous.
Frans de Waard | VITAL WEEKLY
Although the label Gruenrekorder is mostly known for their releases dealing with field recordings, here they also present another side of the coin. Strongly Imploded is a four piece improvisation group from Italy and has members from One Starving Day, Weltraum and A Spirale: F. Gregoretti (drums), M. Gabola (reeds), M. Argenziano (guitar) and SEC_ (synth and electronics). With their background in improvised music from a louder edge, its no surprise to know that also Strongly Imploded sees a similar combination of noise, improvised music and free jazz. They have seven tracks here, no doubt the result of a direct to tape playing, but perhaps with some edits. The reeds of Gabola add a sort of strange jazz feel to some of the pieces, while the others seem more interested in playing a loud as possible, banging away on their instruments. Its music that leaves the listener quite tired after forty one minutes, and although I thought this was on of the better releases I heard from this particular circle of collaborators, I also think this is definitely the kind of music that is best enjoyed when heard live.