Incommunicado in Bloomington, MN

For
Incommunicado
,
Kammerflimmer Kollektief
brainchild
Thomas Weber
brought his
experimental electronic
music out of the bedroom to create a live album that brings together
jazz
orchestral
, and
post-rock
.
Weber
gave bandmates copies of
Kollektief
's debut,
Maeander
, and had them study the tone of the songs. The band then reinterpreted them live using guitar, strings, upright bass, and drums. The result is an album of improvised, nearly unstructured songs that, like
Tortoise
, find the meeting place between
John Coltrane
and
Brian Eno
. Tracks like
"Nactwach"
meander through a jazzy experimentalism, washing over the listener with distorted feelings and bruised and at times uplifting ambience. ~ Charles Spano