DUST EATER

"Dozen Of Cans"

self-released - 2007

CDr

Dust Eater is another project involving Marco Grosso, already known with aliases such as Ouroboros, Mind Infinity and Apotheke. This time, the interest revolves around the use of recordings taken from everyday life, street noises and field recordings, combined with tape and loop manipulation, melodic keyboard themes with a particular vintage analogue taste, voices. It's an unusual and interesting mixture, that could be filed under "ambient", but whose aim doesn't seem to be the invocation of a precise scenery, like, for example, a post-industrial one, but to lead the listener through a journey into his own mind to find images and stimuli within.

All of the four tracks are equally interesting and form a continuum of sounds and impressions, like they were melt into a single, long piece of improvisation. Think of the Hafler Trio, Dead Voices On Air or the early Nurse With Wound, but with a more focused and accessible attitude, and you will get a realistic idea of what Dust Easter does on this CDr. A special mention is deserved by the reprise of Depeche Mode's "Shake The Disease", completely filtered, deformed, processed and dismembered to the point of becoming a completely new entity, with few traces left of the original and a running time of over 15 minutes! It obviously wins a place among history's most incredible cover versions ever done.

If you like the above mentioned experimentalists / noise-makers, as well as any different and uncompromising listening experience, give a try to Dust Easter's sound world.

- Simon V.

Website: http://www.marcogrosso.cjb.net

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/marcogrosso