Metal Rouge - Metal Rouge

CDR 3" from CLaudia (CLaudi_011)

Archived item from CLaudia

Metal Rouge is the duo of Helga Fassonaki playing persian santur & Andrew Scott on guitar. Rehersals recorded in Auckland at the beginning of 2006 just before their debut live performance, with Helga leaving for Los Angeles right afterwards (where Andrew will be by the time you read this). Improvised clatter, building up to quite a storm at times.

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REVIEWS:

"Rough, brutish improvisations for what sounds like guitar and metallics from the one time New Zealand duo of Andrew Scott (who also records as Un Ciego and with Nigel Wright in Nest) and Helga Fassonaki. Metal Rouge's audio verite recordings ring into the distance as though they're being played out in giant industrial complexes, and their tonal lexicon is, at times, unrelentingly foreboding, all klang and hum. When they strip things down to the barest elements, the near-silence roars even more. They strike me as a less programmatic New Blockaders, accessing evacuated noise scrape through aleatory processes." THE WIRE, July 2007

"Behind Metal Rouge are one Helga Fassonaki on persian santur and Andrew Scott on guitar - both names are new to me. In the beginning of 2005 they started rehearsing in Auckland, but they have moved their activities to Los Angeles these days. It starts out, just like Muffin Seeks Sunship, very quietly and peaceful in the first two tracks, but later on this turns out to be just one side of the coin, because in the third track things explode and got really noisy. Very much the work of improvisation and 'outsider' creators, where I must say I like the more introspective moments better." VITAL WEEKLY, 547