Outskirt

Concept album about low inhabitated, or at least far from centre areas. Genres vary according to the ambient, from kraut rock electronics to indie, jazz, death metal, avantgarde, obscuro and more.

A list of notes about single parts on Outskirt:

01. Sigma Hydrae - It’s Outskirt’s intro, comprising a vivace drone (in comparison to those of GI!BE) growing up progressively with chorus to his theatric closing, disturbed by an elusive pianist involved in a spastic series of tryouts, searching for the right theme.

02. Møre og Romsdal - It’s a norwegian county splitted in countless fjords and isles. A glacial jazz-death metal approach seemed apt to describe this crude land,by melting Meshuggah and Mike Barr kind of outputs.

03. Reidsville, NC - It’s a post-rock song about a tiny industrial town in North Carolina.

04. Giant Star Antares - Got an early kraftwerk/krautronics taste. Electronics sounds like minimal classical instead of being a multilayered baroque pastiche of pads, it’s 5 minutes of audio travelogue about revolving around Antares, from door to door.

05. LaGuardia, 3:00 A.M. - Song result is something like Cardiacs playing be-bop in front of one of LaGuardia coffee-shops night time.

06. Zimniy Dvorets (the Winter Palace) - It’s a piano romantic classical piece inspired by Winter Palace getting empty by czar Nicolas II sudden leaving for Alexander Palace. Right place for the pianist left on Enterprise in Sigma Hydrae.

07. Thar Desert - Bass, which serves both rhythm & melody, a compulsive-riff guitar and a very dry drum set. Funky to the rougher, referring to Bill Laswell style when he played in Massacre or first Material record (Memory Serves), plus the old No Wave funk area (Konk, Contortions, Liquid Liquid and the like).

08. Junction Box - It’s an electronic joint between first Outskirt half and Belief suite. Works like a teather curtain.

09. Belief: Lust - First movement is an obscure carpet of percussions with a couple of solo inserts by saxophone and a dry guitar acting both a crescendo and then a physiological after-coming decay.

10. Belief: Gluttony - Second movement is cleaner, with a off-beat jazz drum, double bass groaning in your belly like hunger and an oboe trio from far like a smell of delicatessen.

11. Belief: Greed - Third Movement is greed in timing (less than a minute) but it’s the most RIO song in Outskirt, in debt with Henry Cow or Art Bears’ dischordant melodies.

12. Belief: Sloth - A bit sloth and a bit lazy, in 7/4 . Maybe it’s the most mainstream part of Outskirt, a contaminated synthpop.

13. Belief: Wrath (Hommage à Shinu Mazafakingu Ujimushi) - It’s a cover of TBA by Shinu Mazafakingu Ujimushi, an english grindcore band who recorded only that song on a Lo-Fi or Die compilation.

14. Belief: Envy - It’s a mash up between Residents-like electronics and Carl Stalling.

15. Belief: Pride - It’s an endless single cuban loop, with compulsive bass, an insistent xylophone and a reasonable amount of small percussions layers (but drum set is definitely rock.) It prepares with diablo rhythms and lightheartedness to approach melancholic Pet’s Repository intro.

16. Pet’s Repository - Song sounds as skeleton progressive, meaning more similar to Cardiacs than Camel. A punk approach to prog, such as Pere Ubu (in an avant fashion) or Cardiacs (more melody aware) did.