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Posted on 2007 by MG
rhythm ‘n’ drones
Jo Jena is an experimental band from Frankfurt whose production I chose for this 2005 album, which alternates rhythms and drones (that's the acoustic meaning of "drone") in an excellent way.
Personally, I prefer the drones, but the rhythms aren't bad either. The most interesting thing, however, is that there are always rhythms in the drones and drones in the rhythms.
The whole thing is distributed by the excellent netlabel TestTube.
Contrasts, micro-tonalities, complements, embryo structures, drones. All this, in the casual and systematic exploration of the moment, elevates ‘Rhythm & Drones’ to intemporality, thus inhabiting the present and the history, so we could freely trail this ‘trans-temporality’ without preconceptions.
[Bruno Barros]
Jo Jena – rhythm ‘n’ drones (excerpts) – download the whole album