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AARON MARTIN & MACHINEFABRIEK - Cello Recycling/Cello Drowning

Name: AARON MARTIN & MACHINEFABRIEK – Cello Recycling/Cello Drowning
Item: Cello Recycling/Cello Drowning
Rating: 7
Author: Antonio Ciarletta

2007 (Type)

ambient

by Antonio Ciarletta

Type-school sound lessons taken to the nth degree. Hazy ambient music (as the cover suggests), fairly dark, from this collaboration between Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek, who merge their visions into two long, leaden, elusive suites steeped in melancholy moods. Martin's improvisations sketch out minimal melodic vignettes, while Machinefabriek's electronics wrap their reverberations in abysses of field recordings that seem to come from otherworldly realms.

The mists rise in "Cello Recycling", as an ecstatic drone saturates the listening space leaving no way out, before finally dissolving into mournful cello phrases, with glitches all around, grating and fibrillating. "Cello Drowning" feels almost subcutaneous, caught between Basinski-esque loops and the concrete sounds of flowing streams, still accompanying Martin's lament of strings. The cold gently seeps into the bones, autumn is at the door.

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30/04/2026

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Antonio Ciarletta, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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