(Central Control International)

Sit on the veranda with a glass of white wine and listen to this. It’s rad.

Taking their name from the literary ‘stream of consciousness’ style, Strings of Consciousness are an experimental string octet, and on this album they have become an even larger collective with awe-inspiring credentials hailing from Marsailles via London, Paris and Chicago. They’ve strived to bring audience-friendly structure and form back to experimental noise and music. What they perceive as a gradual move away from the human element in the scene is the fuel for fire on this album, and they adhere to a manifesto of uniting acoustic instrumentation and human sensibility with digital technology. After each song was painstakingly composed lyrics were added, all freedom of form given to the poet. If you want to hear some different and brilliant music check this out. The poetic instrumental form of each of these songs is akin to the calm of a late humid summer afternoon as a windy tropical storm crashes over.

ILI TULLOCH

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