mp3: FLYKKILLER controlled environment
thanks to music@pl.pt, last year i managed to pick up a couple of tracks from polish artist pati yang‘s 2005 album, ‘silent treatment’. from the extracts that i’ve heard, it would appear to be a release that mirrors ‘felt mountain’-era goldfrapp and the more epic reaches of artists such as lamb and portishead. contributions from heavyweights such as film composer david arnold, keith tenniswood (two lone swordsmen) and stephen hilton (co-founder of the free association with david holmes) ensure that it never falls into a trip-hop retread, quite the opposite. check the video for ‘all that is thirst’ on youtube
hilton – whose impressive resume is dotted with names such as isaac hayes, depeche mode, massive attack and moloko, and audio production on movies such as “moulin rouge” – also produced the ‘silent treatment’ album and now returns with yang for a new project entitled flykkiller. according to last.fm, this is their second project together (after children). yang also involved herself in the 2004 free association album, ‘music from the film code 46‘ in addition to producing music for the polish film ‘egoisci’ and supporting depeche mode on their recent warsaw date.
thanks to the band, we’re offered an upfront preview of the flykkiller album, the mp3 “controlled environment”. a full, delicious minute of looped sampling drops into a heavy, twitching break, replete with processed yang vocals and layers of odd, undefinable audio samples. a world away from the lush textures of yang’s last release, it’s a fascinating four minute adventure. check the flykkiller myspace for another preview, the self-titled lead track from the full length album, due this summer (an ep is apparently slated for march, complete with a david holmes remix). their myspace gives us some indication of what to expect, albeit in an abstract and tangental way – an odd press photograph which includes a character head-to-toe in black rubber, married with a literally barking mad back story involving “violent lights” and giant flies made of steel. makes me feel all funny inside.