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Our own Matt Davignon's latest CD 'Bwoo' has been reviewed in the August issue of WIRE magazine (see below). Congratulations Matt !!! Michael Peters www.michaelpeters.de --------------------------- MATT DAVIGNON BWOO EDGETONE CD Reviewed by Chris Sharp Over the last ten years or so, Matt Davignon has been developing an improvisational and refreshingly untutored approach to electronic music making. His surreptitiously evolving pieces float forth free from sampler grids and timecodes, twisting and turning through untrammelled space. It's tempting to describe his latest offering as an extended drum solo - tempting, but too flip to do this music justice. As often happens in art - from the Petrarch sonnet to the Lomo camera - creativity can often flower brilliantly through and around self-imposed restrictions. In this instance,the restriction is more daunting than most. Bwoo was composed and performed using just one instrument - a drum machine. Amazingly, this spartan approach yields expansive, multi-hued results - this is no kick/snare/hi-hat desert. Davignon coaxes a shifting, kaleidoscopic ecosystem from his chosen black box - from the slowly flourishing drones of "Pad" to the insectoid susurrations of "Flam Ratio", to the quivering, delicate feedback and staccato woodblocks of "96 Clocks". The title track is a coy succession of hesitant drones, while the closing "Init All" is stately, almost ceremonious; plucked, mournful chords summoned from some alien cloister to disintegrate gradually in our unfamiliar gravitational system. http://www.edgetonerecords.com/davignon.html