Cindytalk./ Robert Hampson - Five Mountains Of Fire

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 08 Apr, 2010.

Well I was bound to get a drone platter wasn't I? The Hampson side is first out of the bag - an intoxicating piece containing time stretched piano notes and very spiritually enriching draughts of drone that combined, sounds like a melee of singing bowls now with the tempting addition of field recordings taken from "wind & large bamboo plants". Huh? What were they doing, having a picnic? An arm wrestle? Eh? Sounds fucking ace anyhow. Further intellectual analysis takes me to Cindytalk's side which errs more on the side of dark ambient & found sound. It sounds like an unfortunate hobo trying to kick off a tescos carrier bag that's stuck to his shoe in a leaky, sinister old warehouse whilst malevolent spirits drive spectral trains through his shaggy trampy face. But better than that sounds (or reads)

Cindytalks Gordon Sharp and Robert Hampson (Loop, Main) are 2 characters of legend circulating on the periphery of London (and beyond) underground music over the last 2 plus decades. It may come as a surprise then that this stunning split 10" is the first meeting of these two singular minds.

Five Mountains Of Fire by Cindytalk is a cracking track taking their recent brittle electronic experiments and charging them with firecracker like percussion to create a pleasantly disorienting soundscape. Flip it over and Hampson delivers the practical polar opposite with Antarctica Ends Here. An exceptionally beautiful piece utilizing piano and carefully placed electronics so as not to break the ice, a tribute to John Cales Antarctica Starts Here (from Paris, 1919 album).

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