RUSSELL, BRUCE - Maximalist Mantra Music

Bruce Russells Maximalist Mantra Music (Crank Automotive, 2000) pays his homage to Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music with three extended compositions for bedroom electronics (actually, guitars and keyboards). As cacophonous as its predecessor, Russells album, like all concept art, is more about the whole than its parts: sounds grow and move, like living organisms, but the overall structure remains the same, a subdued psycho-industrial symphony. The War Between Desire And Technology is almost new age music (by his standards) but On Certain Obsolete Notions will make Lou Reed proud of his disciple. -Scaruffi. Small stash of this out of print, 1999 release.