A M.B. IEHN TALE

The brand new release of Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.). Similar to his early experimental bionic - industrial masterpiece like "The Plain Truth", "Armaghedon", "Endometrio" and "Carcinosi", this album presents eight decomposed tracks with slow, obscure and meditative music... Cold atmospheres and reverberating piano... Really one of Maurizio Bianchi best work to date!!! Dedicated to all the meditative people who is living in the environmental paradise.

"The environment is the place, the physical space, the biological conditions where an organism is living and, in a broader sense, is the whole of social, cultural, moral conditions in which a person lives. But what is the "A M. B. Iehn Tale"? Is the biological space where the whole social is organizing to live in a moral condition. This well explains the artificiality of the environment where we're living, photo-static flooring of the lack of true purposes and of concrete ideals. If we identify ourselves with the obsolete tradition, infested of futility, or with the sinful lust of certain primitive pulsation, that means we need to plunge ourselves into the dismay, trembling and paroxysmic musicality of the "A M. B. Iehn Tale", otherwise the vexatious insensibility will get the upper hand. The infinitesimal notes of this fervid work will coagulate the inner end of the disconnected proclamation and in their hidden spontaneity will repress the preceding pessimism. It's the neurovegetative necrosis of the technological freezing." MAURIZIO BIANCHI

A MB Ienh Tale reviews

Strange Fortune user reviews are a free space to share your impressions of the music. Michael J. Salo on 1 March 2006 Outstanding! "MB" is one of the all time industrial veterans whose name you see dropped all the time, but I admit I haven't got around to investigating his body of work. I didn't even realize he was still active. This brand new album has come along and boy am I glad I gave it a try.

I've gotten pretty good at predicting what music will sound like, just by looking at a release and taking into account what I might happen to know about the artist already. Before I put this one on my prediction was either A) straightforward classic industrial noise, or B) tedious glitch electronica.

The memorable moments of music discovery come when something catches me off guard and hits me in a much better and different way than I was prepared for. By the third track of this album I sat up in my chair and stared toward the stereo, realizing I was in the midst of one of these discoveries.

This music isn't quite like anything else I have heard. On the surface it fits somewhere between noise and electronica. Dissonance and soothing tones interplay constantly, so that it never gets too harsh nor too sugary sweet. Most of the sounds are electronic in nature while there's also a prominent piano element through most of the album. This music manages to evoke real settings to me, something like dark rainy streets & alleyways of old Europe (not an easy task for electronic music). The production radiates with the rich perfection of somebody who knows what he's doing and has known for a long time.

But the main quality that I feel makes this recording so special is the *motion* of it. One of the traps electronic music falls into too easily is to come out cold & lifeless. This music by contrast is bubbling with life. It never loses my attention because it never stops moving, every second shifting ever so slightly in this direction or that. MB in the liner notes hints at a "hidden spontaneity" in this album- and this listener can attest that it is real.

_A MB Ienh Tale_ is recommended only to those experimental music connoisseurs who demand fresh & exciting sounds, and who despise everything that is tedious and difficult for no good reason.

The previous review provides a very rich summary of "AMB. Iehn Tale" unique world of collage sounds. I won't be more exhaustive but I'll simply stresses the importance of this album in semi-abstract electronic treatments. In his last musical production Bianchi momentarily abandoned his noisy-industrial and shocking horror scores for ultra "visceral" and delicate meditative electronic fragments. Just as Basinski's tapes the result is "unclassifiable": a deluge of intense, emotional and melancholic organic textures built on abrasive, obscured, disintegrated effects. "Biodegradable" features dreamy, unearthly electronic loops; a "petrified", "ecstatic " and "aesthetic" ambient piece. "Inorganic" is a "tragic", "strange" haunting piece based on plaintive electronic sounds put together in superposed, almost non distinct voices. "Hormone" is a cloudy and oxidized world of sounds which hide a subtle melancholic organ melody in the background. "Tale" is the most representative piece with decayed, mystified, plaintive electronic melodies and stormy collage sounds. An absolutely lovely and disturbing effort! A magnificent work touched by the "sublime". One of my all time favourite albums. Similar desintegrate drones & fragile musical experience in "M.I. Nheem Alysm".