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(Clicka qua per la versione Italiana)
Rorschach's guitarist Nick Forte formed
Beautiful Skin, a duo with Rossano Totino. They released the EP
Revolve (Gold Standard Laboratories, 2000), a ten-minute synth-driven
cosmic fresco.
Then Forte joined forces (excuse the pun) with Steve Silverstein (also active as Madam Estrella)
and formed Christmas Decorations. Their debut album,
Model 91 (Kranky, 2002), consists of
brief instrumental vignettes that mostly sound like a continuation of
Brian Eno's Before And After Science. They lack the melodic appeal
of Eno's creations, but they, too, focus on the ambience
(Cricket Broom, Opto-Isolator).
The quiet, eerie, extra-terrestrial landscapes of Data 70 and
Small Window provides some variety, but of little consequence.
The psychedelic surf music of A Random Hill is a great idea, but
spoiled by the vocals.
Communal Rust (Community Library, 2007) added glitchy electronica to
their anti-pop vignettes for treated guitars. The proceedings were much more
abstract and loose.
Continuing in that progress of abstraction,
Far Flung Hum (Wodger, 2008) finally achieved the consistency of
alienated soundpainting that the duo had been promising.
The various sources had imploded in a slowly swirling kaleidoscope as if
chopped by a junkie and then randomly reassembled by a blind person.
What mattered was not the composition but the way the sources were "remixed".
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