The first of Metamkine’s three inch Cinéma pour l’oreille cds was this jewel. Tabou starts with some lovely glops of sound that lead into a stuttery motif made from voices (including Bokanowski’s) at a party. A single soft note on the electric organ eventually provides the first pitch of a little figure that weaves in and out of the glops and the stuttery motif for the rest of the piece. This is a gross oversimplification, but to detail all the intricate details would take longer to retail than the piece takes to play. (The startlingly different sound world that eventually takes over the piece at the end is worth the price of admission all on its own.) Tabou is one of those cds that will be constantly in your machine, I’d guess.

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