released May 6, 2006

Recorded & Produced by Tim Jones

With thanks to Barry Williams, Steve Nuttall, Andee Connors, David Katznelson, David Hughes.

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REVIEW:

Pendro is the work of Tim Jones, one half of the Tim Jones & Barry Williams core that IS Fflint Central, and Nocturne Convolute is Pendro number 5 by our count and carries on in Pendro's
quest to reach some strange electronic Nirvana. The beats were almost entirely jettisoned a few records back, but resurface now and then here, less as beats per se, as much as muted pulses or stuttering throbs, but more often the beats are just rhythmic smears in a larger overall soundfield.
Ambient is definitely one word that comes to mind, but not cheesy or new age, more a malevolent, very active sort of ambience, sounds churn and roil, multilayered soundscapes of organic electronic minimalism. Drone is another obvious descriptor, but drones are just a small part of the whole. Almost every track here drones in some way, but all in dramatically different ways. Nocturne Convolute is a dizzying journey through some otherworld of sound...

A huge chaotic din, like Sunroof! vs. the Dead C, immediately chopped into bits, so each blast of skree is separated by murky electronic pulses, and thick waves of freight train rumble, blissed out Muslimgauze like jams, all raga like buzz and throbbing Eastern percussion, peppered with all sorts of little glitches and electronic twinkles, cavernous industrial soundscapes, dark ambient whirs beneath chaotic bits of clatter and crunch, all morphed into a swirling smear of sound, wild blasts of outerspace sonic freakout, swooshes and bleeps and bloops, whipped into an absolute frenzy that eventually blurs into a high end drone, slow burning gongs ring and
reverberate like ripples in some huge black sea, some damaged jazz squeaks and skronks in a vast expanse of haunting late night murk, buried within a sweetly melancholic melody, beats and loops chopped and sliced and diced and haphazardly reassembled into blasts of digital splatter, and some almost drill and bass, but as with most tracks the beats sort of implode and become bits and pieces of a swirling electronic glitchscape, gorgeous thick whirring drones are assembled from stuttering tones and blurry notes, creepy but so lovely, building in intensity until the drone becomes a crackling lightning storm of clicks and glitches.

Harsh and harrowing, but somehow still totally mesmerizing and beautiful.
By the time Nocturne Convolute comes to an end, you feel exhausted, like you've just BEEN somewhere, experienced SOMETHING. This is not easy listening at all, most Fflint stuff requires some work on the listener's part, some deep listening, every play reveals more sounds and more secrets, each listen builds on the one before, and prepares you for the one after. Which is precisely Pendro's (and Fflint Central in general) blessing AND curse.
The sounds here are amazing, the music intense and hypnotic, sounds that make your ears hum, the inside of your head ring like a struck bell, but the sounds are also abstract, difficult, challenging, and maybe too much for the casual listener.

But you know what? Fuck the casual listener, this is not
casual music, this is music to luxuriate in, to dunk your head in until you run out of breath and start seeing all sorts of strange colors, this is music that gets inside of you, and suffuses all your senses with it's strange glow.

This is not background music, this is music that makes everything
around it fade into the background. As with all things Fflint Central, totally and wholeheartedly recommended!

AQUARIUS RECORDS, San Francisco, 2006.

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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~

pendro.bandcamp.com

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List of Pendro recordings...

www.discogs.com/artist/5689-Pendro


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