Terminal Machine by Kenji Siratori & Pendro

Kenji Siratori: voice, texts and illumination
Tim Jones: voice treatments, samples and electronics

Produced by Tim Jones & Kenji Siratori

Cover design by Tim Jones & Kenji Siratori

Originally released on Hypermodern Recordings, Japan 2006

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REVIEW

Here he's teamed up with Japanese writer / musician / sound artist Kenji Siratori, who we heard from recently on the mind blowing Hypergenome666 4cd set with Nordvargr and Beyond Sensory Experience. And like on Hypergenome666, Siratori is a man of words, literally. His texts are dense and bizarre, strange and so fascinating. For Terminal Machine, Siratori sent recordings of himself reading some of his works and gave Pendro the go ahead to transform those words into abstract sound.
The opening track features Siratori's voice gradually twisted into strange shapes as more and more effects are added, becoming more brittle and metallic, until the words almost sound like the plucking and scraping of steel strings.

Later, the words are chopped and reshaped into some lurching post-Autechre IDM skitter, a smear of distorted melody and chittering rhythm, elsewhere the text becomes some droning sci-fi soundscape of processed vocals and FX drenched drones, another track finds the vocals obliterated, the only traces left... a skittering, squelchy, splattery soundscape of eerie buzz and crumble. The final track is a dark, drifting dronescape, distant metallic buzz, bursts of microscopic grit, bits of high end glimmer and little upper register trills, all drenched in a thick patina of murk and mumble. The human voice twisted and tangled up into some seriously inhuman sounds. Pretty amazing stuff. Packaged in a slimline case with some seriously disturbing 'meat-y' artwork...

AQUARIUS RECORDS, San Francisco, 2007

Fore more information on Kenji Siratori:

http://officialkenjisiratori.blogspot.co.uk/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/572127-Kenji-Siratori

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Also....

To listen to a selection of exclusive Pendro tracks featured on various compilation albums and also for various collaborations and Pendro albums on various labels etc.

see here~

https://pendro.bandcamp.com

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List of Pendro recordings...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/5689-Pendro

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Tracklist

1.	Terminal 1	4:07

2.	Terminal 2	5:40

3.	Terminal 3	9:01

4.	Terminal 4	6:47

5.	Terminal 5	3:00

6.	Terminal 6	3:36

7.	Terminal 7	4:55

8.	Terminal 8	3:01

9.	Terminal 9	4:43

10.	Terminal 10	7:01

Credits

released December 10, 2006

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