Michel Banabila: Trespassing / Marilli Vinyl 2LP

Collection of genre bending material from long-serving Dutch experimentalist Michel Banabila. The release compiles examples of Banabilla's "excursions into otherworldly and imagined realms," and the results will take you there along with him. Trespassing includes tracks recorded between 1987 and 2017, which move between humid, percussion-led workouts, exotic ambience, dark and creepy soundscapes and sticky electro-acoustic fusion. The second record, Marilli, was originally released in 1983 and appears as an LSD inspired DIY tribute to David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. The highly sought after album is presented here in its entirety for the first time since its original release. If you've been feeling the releases on Music From Memory or any of the recent spate of Japanese reissues we recommend you check this one out. Twenty tracks in all. Released by Seance Centre on double vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve.

• double vinyl pressing
• gatefold sleeve
• music label: Seance Centre 2017

reviewed by Horizontal Plane 02/2018