Serge Baghdassarians

"At a time when the masses are dropping their first-choice instruments and trading them for laptops, the German quartet Ilinx is treading that same path, but only mid-way. Two of its members - guitarist Serge Baghdassarians and sample-magician Boris Baltschun - are converted over to the electronics medium, while alto saxophonist Lars Scherzberg and percussionist Jacob Thein are playing their first chosen instruments. The music is played with a particular edge and wild abandon. Scherzberg is especially keen on dispersing a wad of delicately subdued breaths, while Thein delivers substantial amounts of trickling percussion in the vein of Tony Oxley. Electronics aspect is obviously heavy. Heaps of scrapes, hums and ticks escape from Baltschun's sampler. Meanwhile, Baghdassarians wraps up the sound in a concoction of warped metallic metaphors and luxuriously scraping bleeps. Here's hoping Ilinx will have further documents of this sort pop up in the future". - Gaz-Eta

PERSONNEL:

• Serge Baghdassarians - (electric guitar, electronics)
• Boris Baltschun - (sampler, electronics)
• Lars Scherzberg - (alto saxophone)
• Jacob Thein - (drums, percussion)

TRACKS:

• 01. Bridge Velocity
• 02. Resonators Response
• 03. Initial Motion 1
• 04. Quilt
• 05. Initial Motion 2
• 06. Plane of Consistency
• 07. Encore
• 08. Position of the Plucking Point
• 09. Somehow Metallic
• 10. Autoreverse