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 Saroos
Saroos is the imaginary, remote
place where this remarkable album came into being. Saroos
are Florian Zimmer and Christoph Brandner. Their debut,
of the same name, is filled with spacial-rhythmic causes.
It is akin to a real bay - music lying calmly in continuous
movement, open and harboured at the same time. Saroos'
maximal minimalism disproves the notion that electronically
adept drummers prefer affective beats to filigree procreation.
Here at least here it is the other way round: soft slivers
of sequences, mysterious, subcutaneous. Where toms pound
the kickdrum, a buzzingly beautiful vault of rhythm
is upraised. Filigree bevies of staccato striae and
clearly structured sound mixtures. Sometimes a metronome
ticks through, then you hear the echoing detachment
of well known clusters. What is happening here is what
we call a stream. In the deep substream, close to the
ground, Saroos' significantly accentuated sound material
and immaculate guitar-branchage drift towards percussive
rock. The distance to the surface is shortened intermittently,
the music led into calmer basins, only to take the next
segment deeper still. A water-sprite awakes with a start,
it is Anticon's alias learning "During This Course",
followed by the fiction of what was just to be heard:
on hearing "Everyone Was There", the pixies
of Andrew Weatherall's "Sabres Of Paradise"
meet for a shadowy tryst, and through "One"'s
veil of algae, even Slint's ghosts are to be seen. The
threatening tangle back there, was it just an effect
of "Troubled Sleep"? What is played, what
is acoustic, which antenna is transmitter of what? Saroos'
world develops according to an intuitively planned inspiration:
not in rank growth, not like a swarm, but rather calmly,
avoiding the safe road for a chasm, doing brilliantly
in a fog. Saroos, who are they? Lava in a fast version,
time to music, a percussive album in melodic twilight.
Peculiar, catchy and life-sized.
Links
www.myspace.com/saroos
www.alientransistor.de
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