Franck Vigroux - Camera Police

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 25 Jun, 2010.

Ah what a fine way to end the week with this head rinsing third album from this French artist, whose setup consists of analogue synth, drum machines, samplers, turntable etc. After the 'Police' intro 'Camera' takes no prisoners with its heavy, abrasive distorted electronic beats and gargantuan blasts of noise. Immediately the recent Pan Sonic album springs to mind as an obvious comparison. 'Judas' builds the tension with bleeps, drones and spacious sound design. Then there a re more ambient moods, experiments in microsound but then it heads back to the distorted industrial sounding machine rhythms. Many of the pieces are quite abstract while others are more linear. Check this guy out as this is really excellent. Watch your ears if you're listening on headphones as there are some quite high frequencies here :)

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from Vital Weekly:

FRANK VIGROUX – CAMERA POLICE (CD by D’Autres Cordes)
The French label D’Autres Cordes releases music with some background in improvised music, even jazzy at times, but here they blast away with the third album by Franck Vigroux. His first two didn’t make it to Vital Weekly, but last’s album with Matthew Borne. An odd mixture of jazz and electro-acoustic music. All album full of music, from top to bottom filled up. On this third solo CD, Vigroux uses analogue synth, drum machines, samplers, turntables, vocoder and such like. Just what he is up to, I was thinking. This has to do with improvisation… just being very little. Although I can believe that parts of these pieces were improvised, the outcome has nothing to do with improvised music as we know it. The music is loud, distorted, even noise based perhaps but also heavy on the rhythm. Think short outbursts of Merzbow backed by the rhythms of Pan Sonic and you are close to it. A furious, energetic album, with again hardly a moment to rest and sit back. It hammers and bang on. The missing link, between the record right above by Kabutogani and right below by Russell Haswell. Much louder than the first, not playing the exact same noise card of the latter. Vigroux manages to find a balance between the clean clicks and cuts movement and the analogue (?) noise mass. Breathless and tired, the listener is left behind. (FdW)

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