SOUND PROJECTOR MAGAZINE REVIEW 2

On Desert Moon (PATAPHYSIQUE RECORDS DD-016), Henritzi is reunited with his old friend the Japanese violinist Fukuoka Rinji; the duo have made many recorded outings together, including the very noisy Descent to the Sun LP from 2014. The combination of electric violin and lapsteel guitar never fails to produce achingly plangent sounds; almost everything they do is steeped in the deepest melancholy, and Desert Moon is no exception. Of note: ‘Song For Nico’, which makes plain its deep affection for Nico’s records, and could almost be a missing John Cale arrangement from The Marble Index; ‘Hungarian Snake Dance’, which features Rinji’s pallid vocals and could easily have slipped onto any Sun City Girls record of the 1980s with its ethno-forgery credentials; ‘Sombre Dimanche’, which if played on a “gloomy Sunday” will in fact induce thoughts of suicide among the lonely; and ‘Ballad Of Josef K’, which is a moving attempt to capture in musical sound the sense of utter futility embodied in that depressive writer’s output. The evocative sleeve image could almost be a still from the Kuroneko film.

Ed Pinsent

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2019/03/05/magick-memos/

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