GENRE PEAK - Your sleekest engine
/ Published on 21-03-2016 /
Peak
kind is the project of Martin Birke , active electronics
percussionist for twenty years. We should rather say that Genre Peak is a
project of the fertile musical imagination of Martin Birke, who already has to
his credit some notable associations in favor of the electronic case. Installed
behind the battery from the age of seven years and resulted in church choirs in
his native California, Martin Birke is active early in various projects, leading
to the formation of his first professional project in the mid 1990 Sandbox
Trio .
Combining electronic instruments and handicrafts, this band released
several albums until 2000, the death of Chuck Ehlis, musician essential to the
project. Martin Birke then moves on Casualty Park , a duo mounted with
Aaron Kinney who released three albums between the end of the last century and
the beginning of the next. Then in 2005 comes Genre Peak, a group assembled by
Martin Birke with intentions to stabilize a line-up but that lasts only the time
of an album ("End of the Earth" , 2006). It was then that Martin Birke
guess its Genre Peak project could evolve better if it were based on the
circumstances collaborations, without idea of sustainability of a team. By
coming and going of guest musicians, Martin Birke pursues Genre Peak discography
with "preternatural" (2008), "Redux" (2010) and "9
microspheres" (2013). The work is mainly oriented towards electronic
music and experimentation, causing many remixes of existing songs placed on new
albums. For his new album "Your sleekest
engine"
Martin Birke convened new guests, includingSteve
Jansen (Japan, David
Sylvian), Jon Hassell (Brian
Eno ,Peter Gabriel), Richard
Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Matt
Malley (Counting Crows) and vocalists
as Lesley Braden (Fast
Arrow), Charlie
Woodward (Falco ,Strinx )
and Manal Deeb (a Palestinian singer just placing Arabic
texts on the latest songs on the album). With bassist Mick
Karn (Japan, Dali's Car, David Torn), the team is
complete. Martin Birke wrote here all the pieces but sharing their creation with
various musicians of the project which involved individually to suit pieces. The
album "Your sleekest engine" has indeed need nearly three years of
design, Martin Birke recording his songs with guests based on availability. The
content of these pieces gives pride to electronic music, willingly planing and
dancing ( "Denizen Darklight" ). One can distinguish in this album
influences from new wave (Depeche Mode) but things are also moving towards more
experimental things, visible in the second part of the disc ( "civil rage
American" , "Fix me deeper" , which is remixed and therefore comes in
two different versions). for people unaccustomed to experimental electronics,
this album may surprise or even destabilizing. But there in the work of Martin
Birke willingness to cross musical boundaries and bring the listener in regions
rarely visited. It is well beyond the new wave of vanity or the flatness of the
dance floor, but in an experiment after all interesting.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO
 | Your Sleekest Engine CD - £9.99 |
 | Redux CD - £9.99 |
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