Phroq : Connections, opportunities for mistakes

Francisco Meirino has been around for quite some time, as Phroq and has produced a bulk of releases on a variety of labels, such as Ground Fault, Banned, Even Stilte, Entr’acte, Solipsism, Gameboy, Carbon and others. Shiver Sounds is his own label. Failure is one of the things that interests him. Wether by accident – something breaks – or by his own fault, Meirino is interested in continuing the creative process. For ‘Connections, Oppurtunities For Mistakes’ he uses minidisc failures, the death of a PA system, electro-static background noises, broken cassette recorder and more. Phroq’s music is based on the recordings of these failures, which he then puts together as music. This he does here with some refined class, I must say. It would be too easy to say that Phroq uses the idiom of microsound and that he has put in some extra loud noise elements, but it comes down to just that. Electro magnetic charges running up and down, and then a loud bang of something breaking.
Some of these sounds get looped around and further processed. Thus the failure becomes the basis of a creation. Every sound can be used in whatever way, and that’s exactly Phroq’s point. He does a great job here, with some highly intelligent music. Its dynamic range for one is a fine thing. Ranging from the superloud to the super quiet, makes this an intense and tense release. Clever compositions of electrical sounds made into electronic music. Music with a dramatic content. Of course there are others who worked in this field, Möslang/Guhl’s cracked everyday electronic comes to mind or Joe Colley, but Phroq seems, at least to me, to take things into the world of composition, and that’s a great thing. A very fine disc, the best thing I heard from him so far. (Franz de Waard) Vital Weekly 661

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