Explode Baby
Agf Producktion
ELECTRONIC
AGF aka ANTYE GREIE aka LAUB (Germany) and VLADISLAV DELAY aka LUOMO (Finland), both known for their various solo releases and worldwide performances release their first full length collaboration album. A dialogue between a drummer and a vocalist, two musical activists combine their talents, expressing their views with music in their unique way. This work sounds more akin to BRIAN ENO or DAVID SYLVIAN. Like those artists, AGF and Delay steer clear of perfect software and sequenced looping and allow elements of chance and human error to disturb the music-making process. ‘Explode Baby’ is a complex collaboration with special ingredients. The inspiration for this album was collected from contemporary life and people, in the news and on the streets. Much of the material is paired down as early SUICIDE, yet there’s a warmth and humanity to the crankily askew rhythms that keeps the album from sounding austere.
The spoken word passages possess the same quizzical attention to daily minutiae as LAURIE ANDERSON. The melodies are delivered so fetchingly recalling the more accessible end of work from Elizabeth Esselink aka SOLEX. ‘Explode Baby’ comes with beautiful artwork: A 16 page full colour booklet incl. drawings and explosions by KAISA KEMIKOSKI. WIRE “Eerily beautiful
collection of observational vignettes and wispy song sketches, starkly observed, curiously tender with many highlights on this quietly great album” Retail sticker: “Debut album by AGF + VLADISLAV DELAY…plus a quote from DAVID TOOP: “...a dream diary of 21st century ennui, written on broken beats...\" . COLLABORATION BETWEEN AGF & VLADISLAV DELAY!
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