irr. app. (ext.) - Drone Works #10 (Twenty Hertz, 2005)

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Despite being around for some time, Matt Waldron, aka Irr.app.(ext.) is still not a household name, which is a pity. He has a couple of solo releases on labels as Fire Inc and Helen Scardale, and has played with Steve Stapleton's Nurse With Wound on a rare concert in Vienna recently. On 'Drone Works #10', perhaps the final release in this series, he plays a single, twenty-one minute drone piece, starting out with humming in Asia, but slowly guitars played with fans, bows or e-bows (or some such or maybe all together) take over and built a majestic drone piece. The piece is much louder, top heavy under it's weight, than the usual pieces in this series. Harsh but non-violent, this is more Tony Conrad than Brian Eno, if you catch my drift. A masterpiece and if this is the end of the series, it doesn't end with a breeze but with a nice electric storm.
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