Album Review: Klimek / ‘Movies Is Magic’ (Anticipate)

Feb 15th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Big Shot Magazine, Music Reviews

With every release since his 2004 debut Milk & Honey, Sebastian Meissner’s work has grown more conceptual, abandoning its “pop ambient” trappings in order to become something that is both more sonically rich and artistically profound.

Movies Is Magic, Meissner’s second release for Ezekiel Honig’s Anticipate Recordings imprint, takes the dissection of film music as its thematic staring point, is without a doubt his most conceptually mature work to date, but it’s far from being his most enjoyable. Indeed, Movies Is Magic may actually be the darkest Klimek release yet, thanks to an expanded tonal palette that finds Meissner underscoring his fractured ambience with snatches of spoken word and even percussive elements that aren’t too far removed from the clicks-n-cuts rhythmics of Marc Leclair’s Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes. However, though these new elements may make for a diverse addition to the Klimek catalog, they hardly place Movies Is Magic over Meissner’s past efforts. Stick with Dedications.
Carl Ritger
File under: Marsen Jules, GAS, Marc Leclair