alexei borisov: before the evroremont (n&b research digest)

The exactly 30 minutes and 37 second long album from Russia's Alexei Borisov, is based on a liverecording made in the Avanto Festival in Helsinki, 10/11-2001, and is only appearing as one single track.
The album opens with a distorted male voice, that continues in a longer time, while the soundsupply gets expanded with more voices, silent noise and what sounds like Windows-sounds. As the leading voice disappears, the music changes, and goes to a level reminding of Kim Cascone, but continues with various sounds in the background reminding of the just heard, like voices, for instance parts of a conversation, and a man humming. Besides that, a constant, though silent, noise. Gradually every sign of the Kim Cascone-sound disappears, and instead a rhythm of sinewaves and more or less spontaneous clicks appears, while something that sounds like cat-wretchedness is sounding. At times, with a somewhat louder noise. Afterwards the Kim Cascone-sound suddenly appears again, but still with the noise and the voicesamples, as the trademark. Besides that, a high bassline. This stops rather immediately though, and it sounds like the track changes somewhat drastically although the music really didn't change very much, but this time with a rather distorted and deep bassline instead of the high one. Also this ends rather immediately, and another rhythm of sinewaves appears, while in the background one can faintly hear a piano, and another voice. Gradually the piano disappears, and another deep bass enters the music. A loud noise also appears, which changes the music very drastically, despite the music has the same ingredients as just before, just with a different appeal, and despite the fact that the movement in the music has happened slowly. After that, the music only continues via the noise, and an acoustic drumbeat, that as quick as it appears, as quickly disappears, then the music starts sounding almost like in the beginning of the album. The track and the album fades out, and the music ends in a round of applause from the audience.
An interesting, and messy, best described as noise, release, that unfortunately a little too often reminds me a little too much of Kim Cascone, but maybe that's just something I have to get used to, because despite the fact that I do have respect for him, I sure as hell could never stand his music.
Most of the time, this album falls into my taste, but my opinion is irrelevant, so instead listen to my description of the album, because there is no doubt that Alexei Borisov knows what he is doing, and it is interesting indeed.