Said/done. This time the #buzz review doesn’t take us much back in time (as it's a record released last year) but rather into deeper space. At the helm of our spaceship, of course, is captain @ALFAMA.

Demdike Stare - Cosmogony (DDS, September 21, 2017)

Demdike Stare is a duo from Manchester consisting of DJ Sean Canty and producer Miles Whittaker. The duo is a minor presence in the UK underground, yet they have made themselves known in the past for their combination of minimal electronics and more avant-garde sounds. This record, however, is truly special and exceptional, as it is a work commissioned by the esteemed Ina-GRM, aka "Groupe de recherche musicale de l'Institut de l'audiovisuel," born out of the will of French avant-garde composer Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), who can be considered one of the founding fathers of so-called "musique concrète." This is how "Cosmogony" was born, a work released solely on audiocassette and ideally divided into two parts, conceptually dedicated to the birth of the cosmos and the origin of the universe, with a first part rich in space ambient suggestions and a second much more minimalist, indeed significantly more inspired by typically "concrète" content. The final result is damn convincing, as if the duo were truly akin to the great minimal and avant-garde composers of the past from Karl-Heinz Stockhausen to John Cage... Comparisons that may seem daunting, yet they do not "clash" in the face of such a well-executed work.

Demdike Stare - Cosmogony (Full Tape) [DDS]