Anémic Cinéma – «(ceci n’est pas) Triste» review
The significance of these objects and ready-mades lies in the theory behind them….
(Lee Harwood, ‘Dada/My heart belongs to dada’.)
Anémic Cinéma, the one-man ‘ready-made coldwave’ project from Barcelona, presents us its second demo. A one who has heard the previous project’s release ‘We All Dream, We All Die’ won’t be too surprised while listening to this release. The both releases have related conceptions and sounds, so it will be quite hard to compare two chapters of one book with a single plot. The thing is that both these releases (which seem as the single introduction to something really interesting) show the project’s perspectives of development and discover to a listener the world of the project’s founder M.
Anémic Cinéma doesn’t have any post-punk ‘drive’. The project’s music reflects Dadaistic ready-made in its minimal sound but has more obscure atmosphere. It can be also characterized as ‘Brigade Internationale’ in ritual manner. Drum machine background has the additions of obscure synths, ‘cold’ guitar and more murmuring rather than singing voice, so the best way to understand the music of M is to try to drown into the project’s atmosphere and find the symbols which the music reflects. But a listener can also find some unexpected things in the release, such as ‘Depeche Mode’ish synth backgrounds of ‘(Love is) As cold as your eyes’ for example, or a touch of ‘Kraftwerk’ in ‘Labyrinth’.
In conclusion it would be lovely to say that though the works of the project don’t seem enough completed, they do keep the demo functions and show what we should wait from Anémic Cinéma.
Pall ‘Nattsol’ Zarutskiy
‘Grave Jibes Fanzine’
