***BACK IN STOCK!!! IKUE MORI and CHRISTIAN RONN are the superlative electroacoustic duo, well... “duo” unless you count the instruments themselves and you should: prepared piano, FX, Buchla and Serge synthesizers. These masters of unrule are radically attuned to time and sound, invoking the personhood of space and object, chordis et machina, as you'll soon discover once their music, laid down at Elektron Musik Studion (EMS) Stockholm, gets loose in your own environ. No meandering muddiness, the precision and responsiveness of this heady collaboration steps swiftly from fine grit distortions to leaky sinewaves, sweeping from the playfully melodic to the seriously xenomorphic. As prepared-piano hammers against braiding electronics, each possibility unfurls the next. Tossed from the final groove, you'll hike up your needle and want to plunge right back in. “Endless probing that hooks into your neurons, this album leaves sonic organisms floating around you. Even if that's merely an illusion, the alchemy of Mori and Rønn’s hyperactive stew is very real.”—Marc Masters
LP $20.95
08/10/2018