released July 1, 2001

An analogue recording.
Conceived, performed & produced by Tim Jones.

Tracks 1,3,4,5 & 6 were performed, recorded & mixed at Pen Golau on a TEAC 4-track machine.

Track 2 was recorded live at the Rotations #4 event hosted by RSI Recordings, which was held upstairs at The Britons Protection Hotel, Manchester UK on 31st March 2001.
AAD

Final mastering by Barry Williams at Talargoch.
Original album artwork by Mike Jones.

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REVIEWS:

And what do ya know, the almighty Fflint Central strikes again!
Why aren't these guys huge? Especially when they are making some of the craziest, most original electronic music we've ever heard. Blows away most everything else we've heard.

But how they do it? Do these guys ever sleep? Don't they have
jobs or families? Or lives? But then, who cares, when we're treated to a new record this good every few months. And this one is GOOD. A quick trip through 'Peninsula' reveals: stuttering bagpipes and far away seal calls, as if Oval got a hold of some Amps For Christ CDs, growling and scraping woodblocks time-stretched into sinister growls, raw and ultra distorted high end melodies, player pianos reverbed to death until they become an ominous hum like a swarm of mechanical wasps pinned down by loping, stumbling Autechre-ish loops, rhythmic workouts: all stuttering thumps and slow motion handclaps, like Timbaland being held down in your bathtub, struggling for air, delicate and crystalline bubbles of ringing percussion and shimmering washes of dreamy spaciness.

The record ends with a monstrous, upper register extended drone, warm and hypnotic, but still intense and ear piercing, like having an icepick made out of cotton driven into your skull.
Very reminiscient of Pelt, Lamonte Young, or a very relaxed, very peaceful, very stoned Skullflower.

AQUARIUS RECORDS, San Francisco, 2001

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Regular visitors to the Brainwashed message board might be familiar with the name of industrial prog fiend Tim Jones.
Now his cover's blown because The Brain can reveal that not only is he the one and moanly Pendro, but also a collaborator in noise with Triclops and production assistant for the aural hauntings of Berkowitz, Lake & Dahmer. Like BLD, Pendro releases have so far been CD-R's on Fflint Central, the label that Tim founded with longtime friend from Fflint Barry Williams.
"Peninsula" is particularly notable for including a good chunk of a head on collision of roaring analogue synth and minidisc loops during which Pendro almost blew the roof off at a Rotations night in Manchester. Pendro's mind crumbling thick drones and piercing whistles are bolstered to eye popping effect by some choice recordings of buddhist monks' gutteral chanting and what sounds like black water swirling down the satanic plughole.
This is my favourite noise from Fflint Central yet! The thick choking smog of this epic 'Masonic Incinerator' is preceded by what sounds like the looped distress call of an animated bagpipe beast called 'Flip' and followed by four more truncated chunks of looping and loping Pendroism which inflitrate the dark camouflaged corridors of Faculty X and leave a trail of dancing monkey droppings whilst the disembodied organ grinder grunts in ectoplasmic fury.
Whilst there is much wrongness in the unsettled beats of Pendro, the closing 'Breizh Da Virviken' washes out the oddity in some eerie but calm cavernous ambient loop pools.

BRAINWASHED, December 2001.

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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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