Released
1998
Label
Drone Records
Reviewed by
Michael C. Lund
Contact
Stefan Knappe
Drone Records
Gneisenaustrasse 56
28201 Bremen
Germany
Toy Bizarre
Cedric Peyronnet
5, impasse des Moineaux
F-87100 Limoges
France
Last Edit/Update
06 september, 1998
Toy Bizarre
KDI DCTB 49 & 23 7"EP
(first edition: 250 copies)
Track Listing
Side A
KDI DCTB 49 - Pièce avec gare
Side B
KDI DCTB 23 - Pièce avec clôture électrique
et fils de fer barbelés
There are without doubt few musical projects more original and eccentric than that of Toy
Bizarre. This French entity creates sound installments in and out of geographical
locations. The list of works presently to Toy Bizarre's credit (which
includes cassettes, vinyl records, CDs, live performances, sound installations and radio
appearances) reads like the entries in some strange aural log book. Each work is
identified by the letters "KDI DCTB" followed by a number, and apparently each
of these works is intimately connected to a certain place and time. Their entry (or
entries, to be exact) in Drone Records' series of 7"EPs is no
different.
The sounds for "KDI DCTB
49" were recorded at St. Sulpice Laurière railway station on four separate occasions
between September 1997 and March 1998. Wind, fences, grasshoppers, electrical flux, and
other ambience from this locale have all been arranged into a truly striking composition,
charged with an intensity and eeriness that one would never think possible. The quality of
the electrical flux is particularly vibrant and dynamic, rising and falling like an aural
manifestation of a voltmeter, and serving as the backdrop against which the subtler sounds
of the composition stand out in sharp relief.
"KDI DCTB 23" is equally
disconcerting with its rustling barbed wires, and hovering waves of presence, and, like
the former piece, it too derives from a location that would otherwise be thought a model
of serenity. The recordings in this instance were gathered on a single occasion, at Cote
358 -- a summit at Le Bois LaPorte, St. Jean Ligoure, and are of storm, rain, wind, fences
and the aforementioned barbed wires.
Released in Drone Records
series of 7"EPs, this record is limited to 250 copies in the first edition. It has
been pressed on grey vinyl, and comes in a sleeve of wrinkled brown wax paper that one
might imagine to have been found, caught on the barbed wire at one of Toy Bizarre's
recording locations.
