Limb Shop (CD)
by Mécanosphère
Third album of Mécanosphère, Limb Shop is the soundtrack to the inner landscape of an hallucinating mind who suffered real and fictional amputation. Reconstructive sonic/rythmic/lyric surgery. A circular voyage into a labyrinth of heavy dub, chaos rock/ trash jazz, noise and alien drone ambient. Transgenetic at heart, the album was co-released by Soopa and produced by HHY.
Tracklisting:
- 1 Phantom Limbs
- 2 Mutilation Site
- 3 Diagram Of Bones
- 4 Coagulate
- 5 Circus Gone Part1
- 6 Circus Gone Part2
- 7 Types Of Aberration Dub
- 8 Khlebnikov
- 9 Radial Light
Credits:
- Double Bass - Henrique Fernandes
- Drums, Imitation Of Drum, Generator, Loop Recorder - Benjamin Brejon
- Dub, Electronic, Wind Instruments, Processing - Jonathan Saldanha
- Saxophone - Steve Mackay*
- Vocals - Adolfo Luxúria Canibal , Scott Nydegger
Written by - Benjamin Brejon , Jonathan Saldanha , Scott Nydegger
Produced by Jonathan Saldanha
Video
Audio file
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Press articles
Mécanosphère - "Limb Shop"
"Mécanosphère are masters of morbid paranoia, and their third release, "Limb Shop," engenders fascination with the body and its many separable parts. Imagine an emporium of human limbs, organs, tissue and bone, stacked high and ready to wear. Regard the body as an organic mechanism with interchangeable parts, a living metaphor for instruments and their functions. "Limb Shop" shivers and crawls, entwining harsh, grooving dub/hip-hop rhythms with whispers, screams and exhortations. Heavy downtempo breaks seethe and crash over lyrics delivered in Portuguese, French and English. Percussive elements (often live drums) pin together grinding guitars, overdriven synths and jazzy saxophone embellishments. Striations of noise lash out and drone threateningly as protesting parts are rearranged ("Coagulate"), and bass hits drop to treacherous, bowel-shaking depths ("Types of Aberration Dub"). On "Limb Shop," Mécanosphère's rough tendencies regularly retreat into mournful dirges. "Mutilation Site" begins with unsettling atmospherics, growling voices and plucked strings that eventually explode into demonic rage. The death-march pacing of "Radial Light" is buttressed with classic Cold War samples. Schizophrenic, cut-up vocal nonsense and nervous strings in "Khlebnikov" offer a funerary tribute to Russian Futurism. Several tracks on "Limb Shop," subdued and moody at their beginnings, transform into aggressive and discomfiting arrays of power, beats and noise. Variations on the human voice inevitably carry an integral role, from the crying that becomes hysterical laughing at the end of "Diagram of Bones," to the whispered dementia of "Circus Gone I."
"Limb Shop" is an enterprise in anatomical repurposing, a shifting array of pieces ghosting through the jumbled strata of funneled energy. The album imparts a bleak aura, as if there is no escape from its fragmented malignancy. Steeped in textures of noise, breaks and jazz, Mécanosphère freely experiments with amputation and prosthetics; cutting off and making whole."
Dutton Hauhart (2006) Connexion Bizarre
Mécanosphère - "Limb Shop"
“The production of this record was based on the recycling and transmutation of various generations of Mécanosphère studio sessions, interspersed with new recordings. Like a Frankenstein creature made up of corpses, the record is the result of a cut’n’paste process (…) While there are traces of Industrial dub, hip-hop noise, free rock/jazz, the dismemberment to which the music was subjected made the end product stronger than the sum of its aesthetic fragments – and wasn’t Frankenstein’s monster stronger than a normal human?”
chilicomcarne (2006) - www.chilicomcarne.blogspot.com
Mécanosphère - "Limb Shop"
“From Portugal demon - heavy dark sound. All the compilation session 1 departure sound recordings. They are the contents which the GOOD selected part and were compiled. Considerably it is [rohuai] music. Colliding of chaos and [erekutoronika]. Quite it is the space music like whether it did session around Saturn of.”
Ove-Naxx (software-rendered translation of original Japanese review, 2006) - www.accelmuzhik.net
