Echran

2009 release ** ""In Offret", Swedish title for "The Victim", probably inspired by the 1986 film of the same name by Andrei Tarkovski, is a CD of ambient electronics, dark, minimal, without beats, immersed in an atmosphere of fear, on which reciting voices emerge, sampled or not. Echran, a duo from Milan, do not hide their cultured inspiration: not exactly popular films (Antonina Woicik's "Slepa Paga" for "Sister Vk"), books of a certain depth (Amelie Nothomb's "Métaphysique des tubes" for "Anodine"; Simone De Beauvoir's "La femme rompue" for "Retrive"), musicians (Ali Farka Tourè for "Death Of A.F.T."), filmmakers (Leni Riefenstahl for "Leni R") and, I suspect, anime (is Berlock in "Sang" Megaloman's enemy?). How to define Echran? Tangerine Dream at a philosophy symposium on contemporary society with Pan Sonic and Coil."