BIOnighT
- The Art Of Friendhip
(2005/2008, SynGate
CD-R 2121)
Purchasing some new instruments was supposed to make our creative process
easier and to give us more expressive freedom; unfortunately, what
happened was exactly the opposite, and it took us an awful lot of work to
make this album decent enough to be released. Therefore, we have decided
that the new project we're already working on will be developed through
different methods and with different tools.
Mac of BIOnight, 2005
Menno Von Brucken Fock (NL)
"The Italians "Mac" and Sbrizzi FaBIO together make up
BIOnighT. This is their fifth album since 1999 and it took them a lot of
trouble to get made despite a considerable investment in new gear. The cd
is almost one hour long and divided up into seven tracks of flowing
melodic music from the direction of 80's TD and JM Jarre. Although the
sometimes droning sequencers and additional drum sounds - in the title
track for example - betray a slightly more modern approach, there are
plenty of moments where you can blissfully sink back in your chair and
truly imagine that you are listening to a forgotten TD bootleg
("Meditation in Yosemite", "Magma" and "Crystal
Mist"). The basis of the majority of the numbers is usually an
uncomplicated sequence, that barely alters in tone or rhythm, whereby I
occasionally get the feeling that things are a little monotonous. This
particular criticism comes from someone who likes variation and thus does
not apply to everyone! The fact that the perhaps over-simplified basis is
generously compensated for with, amongst other things, the building-up of
added riffs, a different-sounding background orchestration or a quiet
little melody line makes "The Art of Friendship" an attractive
record that will appeal to a large audience."
