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Bridges Intact

by Illusion of Safety

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Too Late To Exist 04:06
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Special Passing 01:56
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Detailed Plans Abandoned 05:53
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Crossing Now 10:51
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Dismal Water 04:49
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Forgotten Baggage 11:00
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I Could Be Wrong 02:14
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ILLUSION OF SAFETY Bridges Intact (Waystyx) cd
Illusion Of Safety records have been slow coming in recent years, but IOS mastermind Dan Burke has been hinting at a whole slew of new material forthcoming. All of which should be very good news for all who have followed his work over the years. Since 1983, Burke has been producing an occasionally volatile, often sublime, and almost always exceptional body of work that prominently figures into the history of industrial culture and the ensuing explorations of noise, dronemuzik, and electro-acoustic collages from the mid-'80s onward. There had long been a sense of violence and transgression in the Illusion Of Safety catalogue, yet the overt displays of psychological horrors that appeared on such albums as Historical have gradually sublimated into the more inquisitive and arguably more compelling albums such as In Opposition To Our Acceleration and here on Bridges Intact.
A room recording of piano, feedback, guitar, and electronics opens the album, as Burke presents a collaborative piece with one of the long-time contributors to Illusion Of Safety, in Thymme Jones (who fronts the idiosyncratic art-rock combo Cheer Accident). At first the piano and the guitar spiral atonal clusters around the droning feedback tones, but after a transition through a series of clattering objects, the piano swarms into a dynamic blur of Terry Riley / Charlemagne Palestine inspired minimalism. Very impressive! Electricified buzzes and tremolo flutterings scatter around another set of bleary guitar drones whose tendrils of shimmered tone and vaporous ephemerality lead to a haunted, levitating quality to the piece, as if everything were hovering around the participants in a seance. This isn't a haunting on the demonic scale, but something more sublime and peculiar. Burke shifts more towards an intense stream of mechanoid pulses, electrical whirls, pierced tones, rarified static, and heavily amplified microsonic vibrations. Here, IOS has more of the research & development experimentation that you would get from the likes of Joe Colley or John Duncan. As Burke ducks and weaves through his tangles of crossed wires, tactile crunches, and short-circuited electronics, the breadth of his ability to produce such an extraordinary variety of electro-acoustic expressionism becomes very evident.
It should also be noted that the Russian label Waystyx has produced some elaborate packaging with two fold-out panels with numerous die-cuts that give the folio the appearance of an old steel truss bridge. -Jim Haynes

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released December 5, 2010

Limited to 324 hand-numbered copies.
CD comes in special packaging.
Waystyx ‎– waystyx 69
all Music completed by Daniel Burke during 2010. Tracks 1,2, and 6 with Thymme Jones, Track 5 with Ben Vida.


Frankly, creativity «Illusion of Safety», brainchild of Dan Burke and his colleagues in the industrial scene, leaving the project's history, their bright traces, always makes me kind of stupor - and when it was required to listen to (at least for the sake of not passing the years of interest) the next album, and when it was necessary to find at least a couple of words to hear to describe. Living in the realm of illusions, which does not guarantee safety, the American composer, always chose the most bizarre options, creating their own music, bent his line, ignoring any frame and line up with each release of a new level of strange, absurd, a bit crazy world in which confident and comfortable may feel only its creator. 
The most "fresh" for the moment the disc «Bridges Intact» reflects Burke's interest in "musique concrete and electroacoustic. Can not be sure of anything, but it all begins with a pensive piano, whose unhurried sounds spread around the enclosed space atonal parties gradually exfoliate, thinner, barely perceptible mist infused into the troubled stream of noise generated by the most ordinary objects. On the background of recurring and disappearing background hum all the time something pops, rustling, hissing, scratching at the corners, filling in all around just yet otherworldly atmosphere.Chaotic digital noise and voltage fluctuations, generating excitement in the bowels of analog equipment, raucous guitar improvisation, rattle and chilling moan of iron sheets, the creaking floorboards, resonances, fluctuations, scraps of samples and is in perpetual motion background - Driven with all this by some miracle , the author creates a monumental music, nervous, anxiety-soaked, but at the same time, disturbing, attention-grabbing, creating a powerful hypnotic effect, falling under the action of which a listener only, and remains, that monitor the sounds that scatter in all directions, like circles on the water, but at the same time, remain the basis of a continuous, almost ritual, form easily detectable, or, conversely, only slightly palpable (depending on the situation and the degree of tension), the rhythm tracks. Against this backdrop, the strange (that is, quite "normal" as opposed to everything you hear before that), but very much alive, and even, as if suddenly in the context of «Illusion Of Safety» it may sound, lyrical, looks like the final track «I Could Be Wrong »- whether a confession is whether the irony of the author, understand what you want. 
«Bridges Intact» demands attention. Maybe he does not give you in return, posing as just another madcap antics of a strange man. Perhaps it shock you. But it is possible and then (much more likely) that he'll win and will provide new depth of sound, to which nobody to this point is not even approached.Yes, this is quite a "concrete music", but nothing like you, no one will hear. Piece goods thing nowadays is very rare and valuable.  5 / 5

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Since 1983, Burke and his many conspirators under the IOS banner have over the course of 40+ releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. ... more

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