Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2003 Country: Portugal Packaging: Jewel Tray Recorded in Berlin, Germany, between November 2002 and October 2003, by the artists.
"The experience of following «No Furniture»'s vertiginous exploration of a multitude of different dynamics, sounds and moods is an exhilarating one. In principle, electronics open up the possibility of stepping far beyond the limitations of conventional musical instruments and scales. «No Furniture» make effective use of this potential, harnessing it not to a spirit of arid experimentalism but rather to an abundance of musical ideas and enthusiasm. In general, the group's fecundity of imagination offers a refreshing change from the paralysis and painfully extended monomaniac exploration of single, thin ideas and sounds too often committed to CD and mistaken for profundity. It illustrates what can ensue when the array of advanced ideas and techniques pursued in Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and elsewhere are taken as elements of a widened musical palette rather than as prescriptions for a uniform, mandatory and quasi-sacred minimalism. In short, «No Furniture» is an excellent recording, perhaps the best example of electro-acoustic music yet to have emerged from the community of advanced musicians in Berlin. Considered along with «Cesura», it also testifies to the expanding range and burgeoning importance of the Lisbon-based Creative Sources label."-Wayne Spencer (Paris Transatlantic)