Penny Rimbaud - Kernschmelze II: Cantata for Improvised Voice
Artists: Penny Rimbaud, Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II
with: Charles Webber, Eve Libertine
Rating: EXCELLENT
Genres: Electroacoustic Experimental,  Noise
Released: 2017
Type: Album
Label: Cold Spring
Link: Bandcamp
Kernschmelze: ‘the dying gasps of the Age of Enlightenment’. 'Kernschmelze II' is a cantata for voices, in this case the voice of CRASS songstress EVE LIBERTINE, processed by CHARLES WEBBER to almost choral proportions. Working on Kernschmelze II alongside Eve Libertine, PENNY RIMBAUD has been able to produce a classic album on a par with their ‘Acts of Love’ of 1984 (Crass Records). Libertine’s sparse, vulnerable poetics counter the almost Wagnerian scale of the work, challenging preconceptions of what music should be and making strong suggestions as to what it might yet become. Extreme electronics sourced solely from vocal sounds to create noise music of an intense and highly demanding nature....

released August 7, 2017
Editions:
2017 Original Release
Cold Spring | CSR239 | CD/Digital
01. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 1 (6:46)
  02. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 2 (4:52)
  03. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 3 (6:23)
  04. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 4 (3:54)
  05. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 5 (6:03)
  06. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 6 (4:19)
  07. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 7 (3:19)
08. Penny Rimbaud's Kernschmelze II ‐ Untitled 8 (5:41)