Master synthesists Colin Potter (Nurse with Wound), Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving), and Guido Zen (Vactrol Park, Brain Machine) reprise their supergroup for Ecstatic with a seductively serpentine follow-up to their superb debut from a couple of years ago.
PNZ’s pulsing, twanging, expansive ‘Magari’ was recorded between 2018-2020 in the slipstream of ’Shut Your Eyes On The Way Out’, which is surely one of the strongest new kosmiche-related albums of recent years. Where that album refreshed classic styles of European synth music for modern ears, ‘Magari’ - meaning “I Wish” in Italian - adapts their style to the unique Afro-Latin lilt of Brazilian music with central use of the Berimbau; a single-stringed percussion instrument commonly associated with the elegant martial art/dance of Capoeira, which the band’s Guido Zen brought home from his travels in South America. Combined with their juicy, almost fleshly arps and Guitar pedal-generated computer voice, the results are wonderfully wide-eyed, embracing bouts of motorik rhythm beside vertiginous noise wormholes and mystic tone poems that speak to a cumulative experience spanning decades spent hunting for life between the wires.
Like their first LP, much of the recording took place remotely or in pairs, and rarely with all three present, before the parts were mixed down at Colin’s studio in Leytonstone. In its journey between the intricate meters and perpendicular vectors of ‘Too Much Traffic’, and their mesh of curdled tones with their phone recordings of a manic preacher in Camberwell on ‘Saved’, they variously recall Craig Leon’s alien invocations of Dogon folk tales as much as the heady dissonance of Alessandro Cortini; producing outstanding pieces of tangibly haptic substance in ‘Sergio’ and infectiously tip-of-tongue Berimbau twang on ‘Gennaio’, and for good measure, something like Phil Collins gently losing the plot after healthy dose of Ayahuasca in ‘Fill’, while ‘Ancora’ sounds like Basic Channel scoring Herzog’s Aguirre
Slowed Life –
CD
Jonathan Coleclough, Theo Travis & Jeph Jerman
£10 GBP
Womb –
CD edition
Steve Parry / Colin Potter
£11 GBP
Darren Tate '3/3/06' Ltd. Edition CDR with cards
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Darren Tate 'Trees Kissing Trees'' Ltd. Art Edition CDR Reduced price! £12.00
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Ora 'Morgendämmerung' Ltd.Ed. CDr with cards
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Nurse With Wound 'She And Me Fall Together in Free Death' 2CD
£19 GBP
Nurse With Wound / irr. app. (ext) 'A Topography of Lucid Confusion' 2CD
£19 GBP
We Couldn't Agree on a Total' –
Compact disc
Colin Potter
£10 GBP
The Little Dipper Minus Two Plus (Echo Poeme Sequences) –
Enhanced & expanded CD
Nurse With Wound
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irr.app.(ext.) '2023' ltd ed. CDR & print
£41 GBP
Nurse With Wound PICTURE DISC 'Alas THe Madonna Does Not Function'
£26 GBP
Ghost Guitars Limited Art Edition –
Limited edition CDR & Photobook
Darren Tate
£15 GBP
Schleissen 4 Compilation LP including Potter, Natalizia, Zen
£13 GBP
Quid Rides LP CAM
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Bladder Flask “One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling” LP
£15 GBP
Ghosts –
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BArTc
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Nurse With Wound 'The Ladies Home Tickler' CD
£12 GBP
Entering the Forbidden Zone
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Window Expanded & Remastered –
CDR in card sleeve
Monos
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Nurse With Wound Soliloquy for Lilith Irridescent edtion
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Ago –
12’’. LP with insert
Colin Potter
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The End Times –
CD edition
Andrew Chalk
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A Bad Diana 'The Lights Are On But No-One's Home' LP
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The Little Dipper Minus Two Plus (Echo Poeme Sequences) LP VERSION –
Limited edidition 12'' Vinyl with full colour insert
Nurse With Wound
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Orbits –
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MPM
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Nurse With Wound 'Deadlined'
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Nurse With Wound 'Spaced Muzak' 2CD
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Trevor Wishart 'Sound Composition' Book
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Nurse With Wound 'Salt Marie Celeste/Salt' 2CD
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Nurse With Wound 'THE CONTINUOUS ACCIDENT' CD
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DroneReworks 4 –
CD in full cover ecopack
Darren Tate & Paul Bradley
£10 GBP
Nurse With Wound 'Shipwreck'n'Roll'
£12.50 GBP
