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Band : Mechanical Organic
Album title : Disrepair, Part Two – The Pleasure Fled
Label : Lockstep Records
Distributor : Amazon.com – iTunes – Napster.com – Puretracks.com – Rhapsody. Com
– etc…
Release date : September 2009
Release : 2-track EP-CD
Aha…the new Mechanical Organic! You’ve no idea how eagerly I’ve been waiting to
hear this! Mastermind Eddie Katz already told me during last year that he’d
opted to go for the release of longer style songs (possibly around the 15 to 30
minute mark in length) and endeavour to write and record two of those epic style
tracks per year (releasing them through digital stores).
Probably, this style of working was inspired by the wish to include guitarist
Conni D (who’d worked with Eddie on the first Mech Org release, 2006’s Flat
Earth Society, but was unable to attend the late 2007 recordings of Disrepair,
Part One – issued in 2008, it still remains one of my favourite albums of the
last couple of years!) into the creative process. In fact, Mech Org has now
grown to the 3-piece “band”, with Eddie now also inviting Connie D’s Spasticator
collegue Evan Harris (also, hold on, a veteran of the scene having played with
the now legendary Taramis, and still playing with Black Majesty) to play the
bass (norman, fretless) as well as Chapman and NS Stick!
Disrepair, Part Two continues the concept started in Part One, concentrating on
the disappointments Darryl Bradford Smith (remember, it was his “Zionist Attack
On The World” which made up the primary theme) encounters as an independent
truth seeker, and the fact that some truth corrupters get more listeners and
believers than those bringing the truth. Well…the concept is followed only to a
degree, you know, because as far as recorded (internet) radio material goes,
there’s only Smith’s. On Part One, his show was played at a higher volume level,
parallelled to some other shows, which made for a tense soundscape with the
addition of Eddie’s music. The music has also changed somewhat, with Connie D’s
guitar additions taking the forefront in the whole (meaning you focus less on
the electronics and keyboards, as they were somewhat put in the background of
the mixture…the piano being the exception to the rule), and occasionally
drowning out Smith’s comments…which I personally regret!
Still, at the end of the day, “The Pleasure Fed” is indeed a very nice track,
and even though it lasts a good 17 minutes and 18 seconds, it leaves you wanting
for more! Which is always a clear-cut sight of quality to me! Of course, you dó
get a short extra, with an “edit” of the track, which is simply the first 4
minutes and 38 seconds of the track brought as a radio-friendly song. Still,
it’s amazing how Eddie chose to edit at just the right moment, making it a track
all on its own! I’ll just have to live with the fact that Mech Org has grown as
an entity, and accept their new sound, which is still based in the ideas which
Eddie Katz brings forth and elaborates on!
Future releases have already been mapped out, and the recording process on
Disrepair Part Three and Part Four has already begun. Even though Eddie already
disclosed their topics, I will not tell you what the themes of those tracks will
be…just to keep you in tension…but I can tell you the subjectss sure sound
promising (Part Four is to be the first of a 6-part subseries with some real
scary themes, I tells ya)! More about it all soon enough…as Eddie’s promised to
keep the stream of coming Disrepair releases quite steady.
And in spite of my above criticism, I still spent so much time with this track
(almost a month, would you believe!?) as to fall in love with the new-styles
Mech Org all over again, and to feel contradictorily wary and unwilling to start
reviewing it (because in reviewing it, I also always part a little with the
music in favor of other review work, see – nevertheless, the Mech Org material
is the only one I do nót erase from my mp3-player, you know)! I truly and
honestly feel só thankful for the fact that I am doing this job…I mean, with
releases like these coming along the way occasionally, it’s all so gratifying,
so very much worth all the time and trouble I put into it all! Check it out at
mechanicalorganic.com or myspace.com/mechannicalorganic. By the way, as usual
there’s some truly great artwork (in a DVD-size box), and I can only recommend
you try to get a copy through the website in stead of via download through one
of the above mentioned sites. Okay, you might have to wait some to actually gét
yoour copy, but the physical being of the album (both musically and visually) is
well worth that small inconvenience!
98/100
Tony.
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