Label: Eduard Vingerhoets – MAB 140461 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Netherlands Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient, Tribal, Experimental
Remarkably ‘out’ 4th world reconstructions cooked up in an early 80’s Amsterdam squat - all timer.
Michel Banabila is a dutch sound artist, composer and product active since 1983 who continues to be very active to this day. His debut here ‘Marilli’ is his first work, privately released on the one-off Eduard Vingerhoets label is an adolescent exploration of his own background. A lysergic patchwork of outer-national found sound, ethnic percussion and lob-sided rhythms that takes a HUGE amount of influence from Eno / Byrne’s My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts and Jon Hassell’s exotic sound-scaping. It’s probably both a blessing and curse that a lot of LSD was involved, I remember reading somewhere that Banabila denounced this early work as a total embarrassment and either destroyed copies, or gave them away. But for us, in our weird little pocket of outsider music, Marilli is one of the best expressions of youthful experimentation and genre obliteration. Rare OG!! (NM/NM - top copy)
