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Madame Curie's Cabinet (click cd cover to purchase) Mike Feeney: Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance ©2008 Michael Feeney, Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios Review Madame Curie’s Cabinet: A Nuclear Soundscape is an experiment in the intense. The first track, “Prospects,” left no doubt that if machinery were taking over the world, this is what it would sound like - unlikely matches of reverberations combined with an Asian influence, and a guitar, all trapped in a factory. Similarly, if subatomic particles, neutrons, and x-rays could be seen dancing together with the naked eye, “Potential” is the music that would be playing in the background. The mind cannot help but envision scenarios such as white-coated individuals in a quantum laboratory performing a psychedelic brain scan when “Shed Those Neutrons” echoes through your head. Okay, so maybe you’d visualize something else entirely, but this was our listening experience, so bear with us. “Pitch Blend” was the devil himself playing a fiddle, as dissonant as it comes, and closing the album was “Success!,” a hard core rock celebration, and “Potential Released,” an all-out onslaught of energy. Phosphorescence Magazine September 2009 |
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The Bear Hill Phenomenon (click cd cover to purchase) Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, Photo by Mike Feeney on the road in Reviews: Michael Feeney is the mastermind behind these entirely instrumental self-designated soundscapes, which in their tonalities bring to mind such examples as very early Gang of Four, PiL, and Wire. But the musique concrete which results, though texturally intriguing to a diehard avant-guardian, ultimately seems more an application of mathematical formulae than a living, breathing entity; I get the distinct impression that this is what two jumbo jet computers might have to say to each other as they traverse the boundless ionosphere. (Francis DiMenno) -The Noise, May 2008 The Bear Hill Phenomenon, is other-worldly. The first four tracks feature “normal”, recognizable music with only a hint of the disturbances that lie underneath. “Drawer 21” and “The Calgary Photograph” are muted and undercover, as if something is being held back. Then, the otherworldliness steps in, and one is led into the unknown, where “Admilrante Saldante,” propels us straight into infinity, a leap beyond the identifiable. It takes talent to fit all the aspects of a vision such as Ancient Pistol’s together without being led astray. It seems as if Feeney is following where the vibrations take him, not vice versa. -Phosphorescence Magazine Septmber 2009 It's All Energy to Me (click on cover to purchase) Control Rods Sieverts Roentgens Grays Becquerels/Curies/Ohms* Coulomb Turbine Recorded at Hidden Fortress Studios, Brighton, MA Ancient Pistol is Mike Feeney: Guitars/Effects/Loops/Dissonance ©2007-2008 Michael Feeney PhotoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Flagey (IAS/SSC) & A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech) * podcast on Zradio Review: Speaking of energy, the next CD entitled, It’s All Energy To Me, features the sounds of the universe. Seriously, how are we to know if these aren’t indeed the sounds of energy being intuited and channeled through the artist? We can picture Bill Nye, The Science Guy, blissfully explaining what “Control Rods,” “Sieverts,” and “Roentgens” are while the tracks of the same names blare out from their hidden source. And we must mention “Grays,” which is energy personified, with a flat out mad guitar jam and a sweet ending Phosphorescence Magazine September 2009 |
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