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here is the Review of "Obsessive Surrealism" from e/i
magazine:
 
"Drama, melodrama, psychodrama. Those states imbue the
syllabus Greek  
electronician Bakis Sirros, operating under the nom de
disque  
Parallel Worlds, has chosen as his dictum for
Obsessive Surrealism,  
instructing us from out of the darker amphitheaters of
the Berlin  
school, window blinds drawn tight. Well, perhaps
'Berlin school'  
isn't the best appellation to use here. Sirros makes
sounds that seem  
perfectly happy at play in the fields of the lords
synth and  
sequencer, but what actually grunts and growls its way
across the  
battered landscape reveals something of a distinctly
modern Modular  
mind. Titles such as 'Beneath Fear,' 'Empty Human
Cells,' and 
'Into  
the Caves of the Mind' connote a far more Freudian
preoccupation with  
altered consciousness than the average dessicated
Krautrock hippy.  
Fixating on feral pinging resonances, moody
nomenclature, and the  
noises emitted by scuttling tiny electronic beasties
going bump in  
the night, Obsessive Surrealism acts like the monkey
wrench thrown in  
the machinery of B.S. (double entendré intentional,
folks). To wit:  
'Increasing Complexity' is all prescience and poise,
muddied pulses  
wafting in a nocturnal thrush of chimes and
argumentative insect  
chatter, something of a respite from the terminator
synth-tug that  
envelopes 'Empty Human Cells,' which is about as
exhilaratingly 
scary  
as the descriptor suggests. Sirros is no doubt attuned
to the fact  
that space is indeed the place. But it's inner space,
though, those  
strange little areas in the ducts of the mind that
fascinates him  
most, that lead directly to the malevolent monoliths
of buzz, gurgle  
and drift set into motion on 'Reflective.' Yes,
there's some 
abject  
dread here in these synthetic surrealities, as if
Sirros OD'ed on a  
surfeit of Philip K. Dick and 70s Harlan Ellison
spec-fiction; 'Pale  
Yellow Sky' is a compelling enough experience in and
of itself,  
curling noises eddying in and out of shimmering black
vacuums that  
have no mouth yet must scream. The tension here is
palpable, the  
music's edges serrated, pitted. This ain't your usual
pixie 
grinnin'  
to the cosmos kind of thing, which is why time might
paint Obsessive  
Surrealism as a minor masterpiece of the (anti)genre."

Darren Bergstein
http://www.ei-mag.com/verite0004.php


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