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cardsleeve, 7 tracks.
UK improvising double bass player of no small stature Barry Guy lends his considerable skills to the Diatribes team, a Swiss duo comprising drummer Cyril Bondi and D'Incise with his laptop and objects. On Multitude (CAVE12 ORCHESTRA C12 O 01), joined on one track by the clarinet of Benoit Moreau, the group produce some quite startling effects as they mine their way into each episode with an insistent, nagging approach. Drummer Bondi is on particularly good harrowing form on these January 2009 sessions, while bassist Guy's skill is in quietly concealing his enormous talent behind phrases of understated economy and grace. But listen closely to what he's doing and you'll find he packs more musical content and energy into ten seconds of bass sawing than you or I could carry inside a lunchbox. There's also a good deal of non-musical junkyard charm emerging from the battered metallic objects of D'Incise as they make their clonky way into the day's events. I seem to recall Diatribes like to use every opportunity to expound their Marxist rhetoric, and indeed the title of the opening cut ‘Le Grand Jeu Financier' can be read as a sharp critical statement in the current sick world of recession, bank crashes, and toxic debts.
Ed Pinsent/The Sound Projector