The first time the name Löty Negarti popped in Vital Weekly, was in issue 425, when we spelled the name of his label wrong. Now on Hamaika two new releases. More electronic but improvised music. First there is a trio disc of Löty_Negarti (who gets credits for ‘bajo, retroalimentacion, amplificador, objetos, platos, diaposon, vox, computadora’), together with Hisu (‘violin, marimba, objetos, retroalimentacion, bicicleta’) and Jion Jang (‘voz, marimba, platos, mordiscos, papeles’). Even when my spanish/basque is not great, I can figure it’s a mixture of electro-acoustic objects, including a bicycle and electronics, such as a computer. It starts out with a long, but nice piece of scraping sounds and electronic eruptions. Oddly enough this piece is featured on one channel only – I am not sure wether this is a mistake, or intentional. Not too noise related, but also not too quiet. In the tracks that follow, noise plays a bigger role. Computerized distortions prevail here, certainly in ‘Paladar De La Tinieblas’, but when the distortion is kept within limits, it’s all actually quite nice. Quite angular improvised music.
Which is something that can’t be said of Skiftingar, which is a trio of Ali Truta on drums and vocals, Alvaro Rincon Pena on bass and vocals and from Iceland Klemens Olafur on guitar and vocals. ‘rock DadA’ it says on the cover. A collection of utter lo-fi recorded ‘rock’ songs that are as badly played as they are recorded, all under the guise of ‘art’. Yeah, right. (FdW)