Review – Page 21 – Makunouchi Bento

October 15, 2018

3 Electrical Snowghosts: Review by Mimo Obradov

Iată că merită să aștepți pînă la ultimul firicel de nisip ce se scurge din clepsidră pentru a modela dunele microuniversului sticlos al minții bătute de curenții planetari! Felix Petrescu și Valentin Toma a.k.a. Makunouchi Bento ne deschid culoarele fără de culoare pe care să putem pluti free. Moonboots bathing in golden sawdust...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Sylvain at Le Petit Agenda

Musique gratuite de très haute volée? Les deux Roumains de Makunouchi Bento nous offrent gracieusement un album contenant un savoureux mélange d’instrumentations organiques, d’effets sonores sidérants, de petites mélodies fantômes et de sons concrets aux milles humeurs. “Swimé” est un album peu commun, plein de suprises, d’émotions et d’humour, qui évite la posture parfois sérieuse de la musique dite d’avant garde. Fan de Lynch, Tim Burton ou Sergio Leone, cet album vous est destiné....

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Igor Olejar (Autorotation)

Swime is an album for people with active imagination. Lock yourself in a room, put the album on, close your eyes and let Makunouchi Bento's music guide you in the mental creation of an unwritten film about childhood in the heart of the Balkans; a childhood full of exciting camping trips, folk music, 80s synth hits, animals, fears, curiosity, vaguely-understandable adult conversations and their arguments. Written over two years, this ambient masterpiece must be listened...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Albert E. Trapezoid

Makunouchi Bento – Let’s go for a Swimé. Makunouchi Bento is Felix Petrescu (a/k/a Waka X) and Valentin Toma (a/k/a Qewza). I’ve seen this Romanian duo’s music described (by themselves and/or others) as experimental, electronica, soundscapes, ambient, IDM, and/or cinematic. Pick your favorite; I’ll just describe it as excellent! Specifically today I want to talk about “Swimé.” I first heard of this band when they were tipped by on the emusers site (see Links page) in...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Keinzweiter

Wirklich herausragendes Album des Franzosen Makunouchi Bento, das sich im Bereich Montage, Ambient oder Musique Concrète bewegt. Fantastische Soundscapes, interessante Montagen mit allerlei Kleinkram. Vom Konsum psychoaktiver Substanzen beim Hören würde ich abraten, das Zeug ist wirklich etwas radioaktiv....

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Allister Thompson at Make Your Own Taste

This is not a new album but is new to me, so it may be new to you. This is some way-out shit that owes as much to avant garde composition as it does to anything we’d call “ambient” in the most commonly used sense. It does indeed have an Eastern feel to it. There’s some bamboo-sounding percussion, mysterious bells, some skronky horn sounds, and a piece that sounds like Fred Frith jamming with...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Matt Gilley at The Silent Ballet

Score: 7/10 The cover of Swimé brings to mind images of fantasy and adventure. It looks like a scene from The Hobbit, but without the small, hairy-footed people. As listeners journey through a multitude of sounds, many of which are depicted on the cover, they may get the feeling of being transported. With so much going on in the music, it would have been easy for it to descend into an unlistenable mess. But Makunouchi...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Vincent Fugère at Camomille

Netlabels are a funny thing. I have a hard time saying it’s a place to consistently find good music, but once in a while, something comes out and it becomes one of my year’s favorite albums. This time, it’s taking place at eerik inpuj sound with Makunouchi Bento’s ‘Swimé‘. Now i can’t lie, i am kind of jealous that Inpuj has this and not my label. I have been following Makunouchi Bento for a while...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by Gojira at B24FUN

Makunouchi Bento, delicatese de Timisoara Buna ziua, sunt Gicu si-mi place muzica! Toata muzica! Fara discriminare! Tot ce o sa apara in pagina asta sunt recomandari si pareri ultrapersonale, pe care sunt gata sa nu mi le asum absolut deloc. Eram pe punctul de a scrie povestea celor de la Grinderman, trupa de garage-rock a lui Nick Cave, dar tocmai in buza saptamanii mi-a parvenit ultimul album al timisorenilor Makunouchi Bento, album care m-a convins ca...

October 12, 2018

Swimé: Review by DJ Suva at Remixta

Probably one of the best Renoise related albums from this year. One of the most interesting Ambient albums of all time. Filled with atmospheric textures and strange sounds from very wide spectrum of superb acoustics. Strange melodies mixed with animal voices, sounds of nature and city into psychotic composition with amazingly clear sound image which won’t leave anyones emotions untouched. Definitely an album worth getting, and you can get it for free on Bandcamp: http://makunouchibento.bandcamp.com ...

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