Kevin Drumm/ Jerome Noetinger/ Robert Piotrowicz

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5...according to our Ant on Fri 08 Apr, 2011.

Slightly disappointing to read that the concept of this record is not about The Ultimate Warrior taking the Belt from Hulk Hogan at an afternoon of WWF Wrestlemania. Rather it is about The Angel wrestling with Jacob (presumably not the King of the cream cracker brand?). The setup here consists of Kevin Drumm handling duties on analog synth and electronics, Noetinger on electronics and Piotrowicz on analogue synth and guitar. The A-side is unsettling from the off with crackling synth and a high-pitched frequency assault over this distant irregular hearbeat whilst weird analogue gurgles and demonic belches emerge. Nice work from the trio, having a loosely improvised yet conceptual appeal. Things proceed in a doomed and bleak manner as the synths start crying out in tortured pain and I feel like I'm trapped in a gargantuan vortex (there's no escape...) which eventually spits out my crumbling skeleton. The flipside is an equally terrifying journey into a world of molten synth pulses and detuned guitar assault. The synths evolve into these weird mechanical bird calls with the track threatening to descend into utter chaos at any given point but things just become more intense and cerebral as the evolving soundscape slowly decays as it loses the will to live.

Kevin Drumm - analog synthesizer, electronics
Jérôme Noetinger - electronics
Robert Piotrowicz - analog synthesizer, guitar

Wrestling: The Angel wrestles with Jacob, he fails and does not give Jacob a new name.
Rest: After a rest the Angel tries again, once again he fails and falls into Jacob's arms.
Concept of the record, edit and mixing by Robert Piotrowicz.
Recorded at MUSICA GENERA FESTIVAL 2005, 29 of May 2005

What is your name?
Wrestling is a unique 7" single consisting of a 3 way tag team made up of Kevin Drumm (USA), Jérôme Noetinger (France) and Robert Piotrowicz (Poland). All 3 artists have solid reputations in the world of experimental electronic music. Here they have it out with one another and the machines in front of them. The result is a devastating electronic maelstrom divided into 2 parts:
Wrestling: The Angel takes on Jacob. Frequencies hurtle around the room as the listener is taken into a world of sound both compelling and destructive.
Rest: The battle continues until the Angel fails to defeat Jacob. Our intrepid explorers wrestle the last gasp out of their chosen arsenal before everything collapses in an exhausted heap.
Recorded at Musica Genera Festival in Szczecin/Poland on 28th of May 2005. This is physical sound on a physical format. Like the old days when Angels wrestled Men and the Earth spoke loud and clear about it's past, present and future.
Again, I ask you, what is your name?

by Mark Harwood (Penultimate Press)

(...)a live recording from May 2005, a trio collaboration between Kevin Drumm (analog synthesizer, electronics), Jérôme Noetinger (electronics) and Robert Piotrowicz (analog synthesizer, guitar). Two furious slabs of improvised noise here. Side A (perhaps called 'Wrestling') has a battle of sounds, wrestling of analogue sound creators, trying to make out who is the strongest here, machismo in music, perhaps? The B-side (perhaps called 'Rest') start out in a similar loud mood, but here things are getting more and more quiet as the piece evolves and end with something of a machine being switched off. Nice one.
Frans de Waard, vitalweekly.net