Electro-neoclassical insturmentations from Hungarian composer Gabor Kemeny. Mesmerizing soundscapes in the tradition of orchestral Frank Zappa.
Reviews:
CHAIN D.L.K. MAGAZINE
Issue #7
Review by Marc Urselli-Scharer
Hungarian protégé Gàbor Kemény explores the boundaries of a multi-textured neo-classical overture to experimental music. His true and mystical approach is based on the interplay between quasi-mechanical sound repetitions and extensive use of harmony and tuneful cadences. Also, the kind of sonorities which this CD brings us are somehow related to the golden years of electronic navigation back in the eighties; as a matter of fact, the midi-like sounds have got that retrò taste and that kind of psychedelic and pioneering feel which gets a new dress with the classical music enrichments.
M.K. ULTRA MAGAZINE
Spring / Summer 1999 issue
Review by Niki D'Andrea
This is some strange stuff. I'm glad I wasn't high when I listened to this, because it would have scared the shit out of me. The opening track "Spooky Castle In Buda" just has "bad acid trip" written all over it, while the strange, scrambling synth sounds in the next track ("Symphony 3001") make me picture hundreds of cockroaches scrambling around my feet. All of this CD follows a similar eerie, surreal-goth theme, adding up to what could easily be the musical score for a diabolical romp through a dark psyche ward. Gabor Kemeny, the creator of these strange, sinister sounds, does a good job of converting ideas and mental pictures to music and abstract sounds. It gets to you. It will make your skin crawl, if nothing else.
APOCALYPSE MAGAZINE
Issue #4
Review by Jim
"Featuring unconventional sound adventures and endeavors in new electronic music" -- which is written on all the Tone Casualties releases, totally describes Chain Bridge. True avant-garde electronics and arrangements by Gabor Kemeny. Intelligent experimental music. If avant-garde music is not your thing, stay clear of this release. But if you'd like to hear something on a different side of intelligent electronic music, give this a listen.
OUTBURN MAGAZINE
Review by rodent EK
Taking equal parts of classical compositions, off kilter and anxious percussion, and a variety of dithering keyboard elements, Gabor Kemeny creates a playful, and perhaps improvisational, soundtrack and retro-futuristic musical montage that makes my left ear go one direction and my right ear go the other, while my brain in the middle attempts to put it all together.
NAKED TRUTH MAGAZINE
Issue #10
Gabor Kemeny is a Hungarian composer of neo-classical music and that essentially describes this CD. Released on Tone Casualties, it fits in with the style of most of the labels releases: insturmental, electronic, ambient and experimental audioscapes. Using a variety of insturmants (which I won't even attempt to guess at) he creates multi-textured neo-classical works that again are very good as background or atmospheric music. The only standout track on this CD is "Italian Movie" because it lasts for almost 18 minutes and I wonder if it has indeed been written as movie music as I would imagine it would work very well. Again if you enjoy this sort of thing, film scores / background classical insturmental music then give this a whirl.
FAQT MAGAZINE
Vol. 3 No. 1
Hailing from Hungary, Gabor Kemeny has produced this soundtrack-ish work, of which R. Sakamoto might be a peer. His moody pieces flow at an even keel, and seem to dramatize a somber, often eerie tale. As the story unfolds, we are treated to a stirring & complex conversation of orchestral sounds: strings, bells, horns, piano, etc. Chain Bridge has more in common with classical music than Tone Casualties' traditionally electronic fare, though the whole thing was probably synthetically made.
