Chippendale, Gustafsson and Pupillo- Melt (2016)

Chippendale, Gustafsson and Pupillo- Melt (2016)

By: Ghost Writer

Chippendale, Gustafsson and Pupillo are a multinational, multi discipline, chaotic noisy ensemble, featuring the mind blowing talents of Rhode Island, Lightning Bolt drumming legend Brian Chippendale, a human tornado, just like Mick Harris used to be with Napalm Death, but with a more avant garde edge, along with Lightning Bolt, Chippendale has created an equal force to the extreme advances of Japanoise, an ultra-athletic approach applied to extreme music and extreme experimentation.

Along Chippendale, this time, come Mats Gustafsson, who doesn't need a long introduction, a heavy man synonym og the Scandinavia school of free jazz, fire music and free form, Gustafsson has been responsible for a great deal of the experimental music coming from that area of the most part of the planet, and if that wasn't enough, the trio is completed by powerful bassist Massimo Pupillo, part of the Italian music titans known as Zu.

Melt, the result of the conjunction of these three characters is literally designed to melt people minds, is a truly wicked trip into the land of free form, noise rock, and something definitely beyond music, is the launching of a powerful force easily perceived as a musical juggernaut destined to wreck really damage to the listener, first part, named Faces of Fear Transformed Melt starts with Chippendale and Gustafsson use of abrasive electronica and Chippendale killing ultra-fast drum fills, the piece, or the beginning of it falls almost entirely on Chippendale drums, but after a few minutes of being violently hit by Brian, both Gustafsson and Pupillo join the party, is Pupillo roaring bass which quickly provides the flesh to Chippendale bone, to which Gustafsson's sax screams starts to appear in the already intense mix, the piece impressive deviates into something else, and thanks to Chippendale wild instincts turns into something more streamlined, with Pupillo bass getting really static and electric, becoming a bit reminiscent of Lightning Bolt, with Chippendale's crazy vocals closing the composition in a really maniac state.

For the second theme, Pupillo dons his abrasive bass lines, using the space given by Chippendale who again takes a chance at the microphone, again here the trio uses its uncanny musical prowess to go into the land of fire music, with Gustafsson lending his furious sax, slowly building some rabid Funhouse like grooves.

Is Chippendale about to become a new version of Mike Patton? It looks like in the beginning of Melt, the album's closing tune, with his vocals giving the central motif for this almost hypnotic piece, which at times flirts with free jazz, at other times with electronica and sometimes even kind of reactivates Butthole Surfers like fried psychedelia.

Melt is a noise fan dream come true, the meeting of three powerful characters which seemed almost impossible to come together this way, a free form freak out not as wild, as the members respective outfit, a trip to the world of noise and improvisation, and a very fine document depicting the coming together of three fearsome musical crazy scientists.