Mike Pathos
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The story of this incredible artist is succinctly described in the liner notes, following the classic style of Tzadik, the label of the incomparable John Zorn. A boy like any other, one day he wants to be declared "dead." Committed for mental illness, then released, his passion for the violin leads him to create this extraordinary debut.
I fear that by now he has already committed suicide a couple of times; at best, this will be his first and last album.

A blow to contemporaneity, the violin is ravished and turned into a diabolic instrument that clings to your guts and pulls out even what you thought you had removed. Noise art that would make the number 1 self-referentialist in the world, Merzbow, pale; original to say the least, to be taken in small doses like magical drops.
Recommended: for those afraid of normality. Not recommended: for those who believe the violin should be played with medieval wigs.