TETSUO FURUDATE
(X).X IS NOT A MAN OR X IS MORTAL
ALBUM GOD FACTORY RELEASE: SPRING, 2000 REVIEW: JUNE 13, 2000


This live recording sees Japanese singer and multiinstrumentalist Tetsuo Furudate perform two long pieces and a shorter one. While the shorter is little more than an extremely monotonous beating of a metal sheet and the second sounds mostly like the slowly mutating sound of a distant thunderstorm culminating into chaotic voice samples, the opening track has the biggest potential. There, Furudate builds up minidramas using furious orchestral samples, passages of near silence and the roaring sound of his guitar.
Unfortunately he doesn't seem able to realize his ideas fully, but merely lay them on top of one another, so that in the end this feels like little more than one long, drawn out anticlimax.

KRISTOFFER NOHEDEN