Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata

"T.A.C. are one of the fundamental Italian groups of the Italian industrial scene. They were formed in Parma in 1981: initially they consisted of 5 elements: Simon Balestrazzi, Andrea Azzali, Giorgio Barbuti, Gianpaolo Terenziani and Fabio Cortesi. The legendary Ouvrez Vos Auditifs Canaux originally was published in 1985. In this album, the great Gregorio Bardini, an excellent flautist and scholar of popular music (he also collaborated with the legendary Tuxedomoon), also makes his entrance as the sixth member. The sound of Ouvrez Vos Auditifs Canaux (the album title is taken from the French playwright Alfred Jarry, also paid homage to by Coil in Scatology in the song “Ubu Noir”) blends, with highly original results, contemporary classical music, minimalist structures, electronics and new wave, revealing a cultured and eclectic musical background. T.A.C.’s approach to sound material is Dadaist and pataphysical as can be heard in tracks such as the initial “Meritocrazia”, a sort of apocalyptic avant-rock. “Fallout” is instead characterized by dark, minimal and almost claustrophobic atmospheres. “Testimoni oculari” is introduced by the violin of guest Paola Sartori which then leaves room for threatening voices and hallucinatory sounds. “Saturnismo”, in its dark and minimal pace, uses elements of concrete music and reminded me of a fundamental group of experimental music such as Nurse With Wound. “La nascita dei desideri liquidi”, with the spectral violin in the foreground and gloomy concrete noises, seems like a nightmare born from the mad mind of H.P. Lovecraft: this is probably the Music of Erich Zann that HPL spoke of in his famous story! The album closes with the quiet and circular “Andreas Baader Requiem”. A fundamental reissue that all lovers of experimental and borderline sounds should not miss."