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Kissinger, Diaz-Infante & ZzajKissinger, Diaz-Infante & Zzaj - Elements Of Suspense ZP-37 ()

Our guitar-wizard friend Mark Kissinger, from Pennsylvania, did the initial trax for this fantastic journey. We were joined (on acoustic guitars & vocals) by Ernesto Diaz-Infante. I played Kurzweill PC 88.

All we ask, in return for giving you this music, is that (if you can spare a moment or two), you write a REVIEW of the album for us! Thanks!


This audio is part of the collection: Zzaj Productions
It also belongs to collection: Netlabels

Artist/Composer: Kissinger, Diaz-Infante & Zzaj
Date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Source: Zzaj Productions
Label / Recorded by: Rotcod Zzaj
Keywords: Acid Jazz; Electronic

Notes

This is one of the most "relaxing" acid-head jazz things you'll ever listen to. It has some very nice "moments", yet remains true to the ethic of "creativity rules"!

The album was recorded via the US Postal Service. It took about 4-6 weeks to from inception to final master.

What follows is a (rather long) review of the CD by our friend Ingvar Loco Nordin, who runs SonoLoco, a very interesting webzine; it should give you some pretty clear "insights" regarding the recording:


Once in a good while you get really happy on receipt of a CD in the mail. Certainly this is the case with Elements of Suspense from Zzaj Productions, run by Rotcod Zzaj (Dick Metcalf).

This unprecedented audio carrier (ZP-49) harbors no plain collage of sound clips, but rather a Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Death Book) review (debriefing) of the life that just passed, viewed in a dreamy flash-by-flash déjà vu experience of diamond honesty, and youre all spirit, heading for a hard-line sequence of rebirths and redeaths, on a pearly thread spiraling through the illusion of space-time, until maybe finally your Buddha nature rises above it all

Maybe this whole venture is an eavesdropping on the hereafter? Or is it a tap on the collective unconscious of the whole Dinky Toys continent of the Americas? There is something pretty spicy psychoanalytic about the goings-on across this CD, no doubt.

This music is background-on-background multilayer gone haywire, and it leaves you with the pure essence of joy!

These guys are intuitive heroes! American ingenuity once again pathfinds us ahead, through crrrrrazy adventures!

The titles read Antimony Aria, At the Edge of Out, Well Done Magnesium Waffle, Imploded Indentations, Hydrargyrum Wordsurf, Palladium Palace, Trace Metal Breakfast, Xeonic Xcursions and Manganese Attraction.

Id say its very fitting and appropriate that they fly this music here on giant airplanes, floating majestically across the ocean into the sunrise! The metal of the engines lights up and sends a glare through the good-morning window as the first ray hits, and soon the sunlight is flowing full force, while Europe wakes up as you glide in for a smooth one

Rotcod Zzaj et consortes hit you like a wretched mix of my friend Sune Karlssons 12-hour household composition Phonia Domestica and the faintest and farthest dreams of the Dalai Lama amplified out of proportion, transposed to a higher level of consciousness! (Is this how a god might perceive the mind of Homo Sapiens?)

I keep on running into good old Monsieur Ernesto Diaz-Infante all over the place, on labels like PfMentum and Pax, and his diversity must be immense, if one contemplates his solo piano albums (moving gracefully in suspended, gravity defying motion across the expanses of inner space) in conjunction with these free flowing and bizarre, yet exact and razor sharp, investigations into ANY kind of sound, any kind of human vibration. These other guys Rotcod Zzaj and Mark Kissinger are new to me in my Scandinavian ignorance, but Im sure Ill hear more of them now!

I refuse to explain further about the ingredients of the sound web. Just listen in! I thought Id heard it all, but I must admit; this CD added new experiences to my collection of sound visions!

Im also making an interesting note, as I can see that these guys arent totally alone in the production of these very complicated and all-embracing yet thought-through and candid compositions of human residue, social fragments, even if this CD probably is the one that has strayed the farthest. I can recall albums like Vertebra by Matthew Ostrowski on Pogus, Left & Right by Diaz-Infante (yes!) and Chris Forsyth on Pax Recordings, Red Shift Swing with Alog on Norwegian Rune Grammofon, 8 10 December 1998 by Norwegian trio JKL on Albedo Records and some of Erik Belgums stuff, like Retirement Fund on Voys, which all in their own way sort of belong in this anti-category of a category! This is new music, new art, expressively bringing the essence of todays global mind to the forefront, where it picks on your sanity, taking everything apart, putting everything together, in a forward-moving motion that leaves no mind unturned.

Give me more of this shit! I simply love it!

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Reviewer: John Paul Sharp - - January 14, 2005
Subject: Music For The Imagination
I imagine that somehow, one's braincells must grow just from absorbing the complex textures that can be found in this dramatically theatrical work, "Elements of Suspense." Anyone interested in sound experimentaion should definitely give it a download! jps*

Reviewer: cpmcdill [Webbed Hand] - - January 10, 2005
Subject: improv virtuosity
Welcome to the archive!

This album has some really cool moments. The layers of improv combined with the aleatoric elements (random tv/radio sounds) leave one wondering what will happen next. This is definitely from the realm of acid sound spelunking.