Project Description

Berlin might be known as the home of modernist minimal techno, but beneath the teutonic shuffle of Berghain and the Panorama Bar there’s something darker happening in the continental artistic hotbed. Here is where Miasmah boss Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner) came in contact with the experimentalist Andrea Belfi and drone metal stalwart Aidan Baker (of Nadja), and before long they were holed up in a studio, distilling their influences into one dense cloud of instrumental bleakness.
With Skodvin manning the guitar, Belfi on percussion and Baker on bass and guitar, we have the makings of a traditional band, but the result is anything but traditional… ‘Brick Mask’ is the sound of each artist pushing each other past their regular comfort zones; Skodvin’s signature bowed guitar sounds perfectly matched against Baker’s rolling basses and Belfi’s unpredictable, collapsing percussion.

B/B/S/ sound is radicated in drones, musique concrète, dub echoes, atmospheres that recall David Lynch works, rythmic textures with a tick narrative character.
The strong musical personality of each of the three musicians and their complementarity is revealed in the creation of soundscapes with a dark antique mood, ancestral and contemporary at the same time. They know well how to condense, through improvisation, different genres into a unique and personal sound.

Dark and gleefully theatrical, ‘Brick Mask’ is an album that revels in its influences and never gets bogged down in the past, and in that never ceases to be captivating.

THEATER CARLO GESUALDO UPPER TERRACE | 28_08_2014