Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais V¿¿cu (?)

by Fly Pan Am

Overview

Noisy art school dropouts, or at least that's what it sounds like upon first listen of Fly Pan Am's Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu. The line between noise and experimentation is often fine, and that's especially the case with this recording. At times the tape glitches and lack of a cohesive center can be interesting, but as the quartet runs on they sound like one of the early post-rock Chicago groups on a bad acid trip trying to find their way around, all the while getting caught up and tripping over their own feet. At the same time, though, there's a certain post-rock beauty to the minimal instrumentations and flowing, yet sort of messy grooves. To the noise/experimentation aficionado there's something to be said about this release. It certainly has the right energy and the immediacy of expression is certainly there, it just gets a little far out and repetitive at times. Fans of East Lansing, MI, experimenters the Rattling Wall Collective will probably enjoy this recording a great deal, as well as fans of the more abstract Isotope 217 recordings. ~ Matt Borghi

Product Details

Release Date:	04/16/2002
Label:	Constellation
UPC:	0666561001919
Rank:	118495

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Fly Pan Am   Primary Artist
Christof Migone   Band
Bruce Cawdron   Claves,Sound Effects
Sam Shalabi   Guitar
David Bryant   Guitar
Jacques Gravel   Contralto Clarinet

Technical Credits

Fly Pan Am   Mixing,Engineer
Efrim   Mixing,Engineer
Thierry Amar   Mixing,Engineer
Harris Newman   Montage,Mastering
Alexandre St-Onge   Digital Engineer