Genre: Electronica / Experimental

01 Empty clouds orchestra
02 A mouthful of dust – part 1
03 Entering the mirage
04 Ego vortex
05 Tripping beings
06 The flight of the last firebirds
07 Totally tilted...
08 ...again
09 Copenhagen, 4:00 am., 49°C
10 Descendent, faster (bonus track)

Plastic violence, Paolillo Fabrizio and Marco Ricci, are responsible for most of the releases from the label Death paradise. Their latest to date, is a promotional only CDr bearing the name that promises to be only the first in a series of landscapes, to be provided further by the duo. On the album sleeve it says that the official release appears on the netlabel "UM/CO".

Yet I could not find it over there. So probably this album had not been released yet. The martian like landscape on the cover of the album brings to mind several words and concepts that Plastic violents are clearly after (they wrote so themselves). Words such as "distance" , "Borderline" , "Ocean" , "Mirage" , "Decline" and "Repetition". Plastic violence indeed manage to create a sort of detached aura in their music, balancing between harsh feedbacks, somewhat experimental guitar approach and various electronic devices, and combining everything to a landscape that contains rythmic, abstract, glitch and IDM features.

"Empty clouds orchestra" begins with somewhat distanced rythm and crunching noise. This intense mediation dig deeper with drones that appear in the background. I am not going to attempt to describe exatcly what I am hearing, as these abstract sounds deserve attentive hearing. But nevertheless, plastic violence show from the begining how they can handle different sounds and layers. Second track begins with the sort of rythm I would expect from the likes of Imminent Starvation (actually reminding me the begining of Iminent's track "parle") and awaken the listener from the forced meditation of the earlier track. An extremely distorted guitar goes along with the rythm and give it a kind of psychadellic hue. These two elements, The harsh rythm and the soundtrackish landscape, are joined together on the next track . The more I get into this track, I realize that even the landscape is rythmic.

Tracks interwine with eachother very well and on "Tripping beings" one can withness the acceleration in the pyschadelic vibe over the still present industrial rythm. While this track is a natural evolution from the previous ones, it is certainly more alive and demanding. The guitars begin to shout and violently rage over the martian landscape that Plastic violence are building.

"The flight of the last firebirds" is a more IDMish piece, with complicated rythm part being built by broken sounds that, further into this flight, are accompanied by broken guitar playing. This combination is a little irritating and might give the impression it was not fully thought of. I cannot say this after listening to the entire album, but this track might be a little weak part of the album. Mayhem fiercfully arrive to pay over the damage on "Totally tilted...", the best track in the album in my opinion, with harsh and distorted "power chords" (is this a guitar? I have no idea) and the return of the acid mothers temple-like harsh psychadellia behind them. With pressure only growing, until all thats left is a dying, feedbacked shriek that carries on to the next track, and finally dying.

The last track before the bonus track is the fastest and most complicated of them all. Very interesting and somewhat different from the rest of the album. It's a rather good way to seal this desert journey in a more energetic flight at it's end. An impressive album, "A mouthful of dust..." asks for a visual translation to it. Its title suggest it is a soundtrack after all, and knowing the ideas behind its creation, the next natural thing to do is to wait for the barren, maybe burnt pictures of it to come.