Kapital Band 1
Playing By Numbers

I was favorably impressed by the debut album of Kapital Band 1, that "2CD" released in 2003 which had represented one of the last interesting auditory experiences in the world of electronics reduced to its bare essentials (specifically applied to avant-rock contexts), a genre (that micro electro glitch) which was going through, to put it kindly, a period of deep darkness and since then has continued to survive in sporadic entities relegating most of the bands that emerged at the turn of the millennium to oblivion, as it should be, given the overall paucity of the phenomenon.

Only the groups that have managed to go beyond, contaminate themselves, export that experience into other sound spaces and that have not limited themselves to digging a hole that had already hit bottom and which, ultimately, could only contemplate silence as the ultimate evolutionary form, since that’s where you end up by constantly subtracting, have resisted in a decent and significant manner. Precisely because of this, I had appreciated the work of Martin Brandlmayr of Radian and Nicholas Bussmann when they joined forces.

With "Playing By Numbers" Kapital Band 1 releases a more conceptual album and the fruit of work that, starting from recorded or concrete sources, as well as from instrumental sections played by the two of them (with the support of Erik Drescher for the flute lines), led them to construct three pieces of electroacoustic, environmental and gently noisy experimental and isolationist interlocking pieces in their posing and proposing and sufficiently constructive, but less solid and more dispersive than what they had shown they could do previously.

As if they were fading away...