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Op fascinerende wijze brengen een noisy geheel, dat klinkt als een ontspoord schermduel tussen Glen Branca en Sonic Youth, maar met het speelplezier en vernuft van Zappa en Palinckx. In zeven tracks van goed 36 minuten lang weten ze je daarmee in de houdgreep te nemen. Het levert een enerverend hoorspel op. J.W. Broek (subjectivisten.nl) In zeven, wederom titelloze stukken, creëren de twee hier met hun gitaren en een batterij effectpedalen en andere hulpmiddelen een vreemde en opwindende muzikale wereld. Zo is ‘III’ een aaneenschakeling van vreemde geluiden, klinkend als een talige dialoog tussen twee gitaristen en had ‘IV’ met zijn ambientachtige klanken niet misstaan op ‘Shade of Impulse’. En dan het bijna dertien minuten durende ‘V’ waarin de twee een vreemdsoortige soundtrack afleveren bij een film die het midden houdt tussen science-fiction, thriller en horror. Geen muziek voor op de nuchtere maag. Maar wel spannend en boeiend. Een goed idee, deze samenwerking, smaakt naar meer! Ben Taffijn (www.nieuwenoten.nl? An unhinged energy guides the wild journey on Fraqx’s self-titled debut. Strongly reminiscent of No Wave’s unruly raw energy the songs blast forth with complete abandon for politeness and civility. These chaotic cacophonies rumbles with tremendous force of nature like persistence. Over the course of the album unusual rhythms and grooves appear only to be dissected with the utmost of care. Glenn Branca’s presence is undeniable, for they go for a similar grandiose sweeping kind of style. Similarly, these are tracks that deserve the listener’s unconditional surrender while the blasts of noise and piercing sirens float above it all. (www.beachsloth.com) Daarmee wordt een cd afgesloten waarop noisy experimenteerdrift, originele vondsten en spannend geïmproviseerd samenspel de hoofdmoot vormen. Twee gitaren met wat effecten en hulpmiddelen in de juiste handen, te weten die van Crijns en Palinckx, dat is alles wat nodig is voor een enerverende en intrigerende luisterervaring. Gert Derkx (opduvel.com) De gitaristen Frank Crijns en Jacq Palinckx zijn al jarenlang beeldbepalend in de Nederlandse avant- rock. Gek genoeg hadden ze nog nooit als duo iets
The guitar duo of Frank Crijns (Blast, Blast6tet) and Jacques Palinckx ! (Palinckx, Insect and Western Party, and others) combine their best experimental efforts here as Fraqx. The seven tracks here combine harsh, snarling, heavily effected electric guitars in various ways, making auditory chaos of the highest order, but the result here isn’t merely ambient fabric noise, the duo often create interesting sounds that make the listener think, "How are they doing that?" and graft those bits in with the rest, so the result is more a hybrid sonic experiment that fares well for those seeking a textural experience mixed with blasts of energetic creativity. The tracks are simply roman numerals, no titles per se, the opener is barely a minute long, and the closer is merely eight seconds in length. The five tracks between them stretch out between five and twelve minutes and deliver most of the blistering chaotic cacaphony along with many periods where they ease up on the accelerator (“IV,” "VI" for example) and allow some softer and more delicate sounds ease their way through the mix, before crashing in again, full volume. Most of this is essentially rhythmless free-form sonic experimentation, no measures, no melodies to speak of, altogether a very random collage of sounds that surprise the listener at every turn. I’m not sure if Fraqx will be a one-off or if there will be more to come from this collaboration, but either way the duo has managed to create an outstanding slab of brutal sonic chaos as a solid foundation for future endeavors, if they choose to do so. Peter Thelen (exposé)
Holland meets Portugal. Two Dutch guitarists Frank Crijns and Jacq Palinckx create an energy-intensive duo to built this highly improvised disc in a context free of all sorts of patterns. And they decided to produce the album with Creative Sources Recordings, a Portuguese independent record company with a catalog full of innovative and curious ideas. The result is this Fraqx, a high-energy record, where noise and free jazz collide in an oiled and tested set, in a perfect balance of energy and subversive charge equally distributed between the two guitarists who compete between themselves looking for who is the most creative. Seven tracks, sometimes very short as Fraqx VII (only 8 seconds), sometimes more complex and built as Fraqx V (12.44). Seven tracks characterized by a very strong energy. The risk in this type of records is that the epic gives way to a constructive weakness and that the music falls into clichés already known also for those who frequent the world of experimental music. But this is not this case. Frank Crijns and Jacq Palinckx are two excellent partners and this record is an excellent result of their levels of understanding and inter-play. Andrea Aguzzi (Neuguitars) |