Polyphonal is a concept album. The only prerequisite was a telephone and use it in your song in any way you like. This emerged in a tape plus a bonus 3”CDr. The tape contains a mix of experimental tracks and indie rock tracks. The CDr features two tracks of the experimental sort by Dutch masters Machinefabriek and Wouter van Veldhoven.
A lot of tracks have names referring to the telephone in every way. From ‘Tone’ through ‘Walky Talkies’ to the new ways of communicating aurally over a distance ‘Senegal (Skype Version)’. The use of the telephone in the tracks is also very different. The one plays its entire song through a telephone, another uses modem like sounds and a third uses the beeps and stretches/twitches/manipulates them to an extent that you almost do not recognize them any longer.
The design of the package is really nice. A blood red tape in a grey sleeve with a couple of different pictograms of telephones on it. But you can see that at the top off course.
All in all this tape is an odd man out due to the mix of different styles. I don’t have a lot with the indie rock music on it, but the requirement of using a phone makes them a more bearable. And sometimes it is nice to listen to other music styles.
2/5 blips for the hips
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