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All systems are ghosts

Sanchez is Driven by Demons

2005
rsc006
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After making rsc003 it was time to take the next step in the demons evolution. The songs that were initially recorded live in a studio with a somewhat traditional structure were chopped up, distorted and finally rebuilt in a completely new way. The songs are electronic in a way that the bands songs hadn't been before but yet they were very demonish. Guitar loops and broken beats mixed with a very electronic landscape filled by smoothing synthesizers and white noise didn't remove the Sanchez is Driven by Demons unique sense for slowly building, melodically and desperate songs. The band also introduced vocals in their sound making. The last song Orion, having the lyrics of Kylie Minogue's I should be so lucky sung through a vocoder, results in a complex and shifting musical experience.

The songs were recorded simultaneously with the rsc005 songs in the summer of 2003 in Matchtown Studios, Huskvarna, by Emil Johansson, Erik Larsson, Mattias Bärebring and Jonas Ottosson and were engineered by Pontus Stalin (member of one of the greatest bands of all time, Dialog Cet). It was the first and probably last time Sanchez is Driven by Demons sat their foot in a recording studio. The demanding process of remixing the material meant that the record was not being released until May 2005. One review of the record stated that honestly:

"I had given up hope of a new record by Sanchez is Driven by Demons. 24 months is a long time when it's about DIY. But All systems are ghosts proves that SIDBD is back for real. >>All systems are ghosts<< and everything's good again. Let's just hope that the next record isn't two years away."

  • Helt ärligt hade jag gett upp hoppet om Sanchez is Driven by Demons. Tjugofyra månader i skivutgivningslimbo är en lång tid när det handlar om DIY.

    Nog för att jag under denna period med viss regelbundenhet tog del av dessa Jönköpingssöners båda egenutgivna CD-r:er och omsluten av deras toner tillät mig att drömma om en tredje. Men innerst inne, ju fler kalenderblad som föll till marken, kände jag mer och mer att det bara var önsketänkande.

    Så som så många gånger förut tackade jag för musiken, krossade en nostalgisk backspegel och gick vidare.

    Döm då om min förvåning när det en dag för någon månad sedan, plötsligt och utan någon förvarning, plingade till i min inkorg och ett mejl poststämplat redstarcommunity.com dök upp. >>Vet inte om du kommer ihåg oss, men du recenserade vår demo för ungefär två år sedan. Nu är det i alla fall dags för en uppföljare.<<

    Mitt svar lät inte vänta på sig: >>Fantastiskt!<<

    Och ett dygn senare landade >>All systems are ghosts<< på mitt skrivbord. Återigen fick jag bevisat att band som är härskare över sina egna täppor gör precis vad som faller dem in, vill de ta en paus gör de det och precis så ska man resonera.

    För >>All systems are ghosts<< singalerar både att Sanchez is driven by demons är tillbaka och att de är det med besked.

    Bara det att skivan räknar sextioen minuter över tretton spår bevisar att kvartetten, mot min förmodan, inte legat i träda den senaste tiden.

    Dessutom har de passat på att förfina sina uttryck. Fortfarande gör de musik som minner om band och artister som Bowery Electric (drones i samklang med beats). Amp (pianot), Labradford (isolationismen), Polmo Polpo (Detroit-technokänslan), Fourier (gitarrslingorna) och Stylus (de inklippta rösterna). Men inför >>All systems are ghosts<< har de skrivit några av de bästa melodier de fäst på aluminium, plus att de låter mer Sanchez is Driven by Demons, mer eget, än någonsin. Att de samtidigt passar på att värma ett gammalt postrockhjärta genom att skriva >>interested female vocalist write<< på innerkonvolutet är bara en bonus.

    >>all systems are ghosts<< och allt är väl igen. Nu återstår det bara för mig att avsluta den här recensionen på det enda sätt som är möjligt, nämligen med en önskan om att Sanchez fjärde cd inte ligger två år framåt i tiden.

    7/10

    Johan Jacobsson, sonic nr 23 [2005]

  • Sanchez is driven by demons' second full-length release and their longest to this point was also in ways their most ambitious. having shown a healthy if not always surprising love for the school of widescreen instrumental rock favored by bands like Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and m83, the group let some of the murkier electronic and post-punk influences in their music come more to the fore for All systems are ghosts. The result was a distinct album from a band initially in danger of seemingly wanting to stay within certain bounds; while comparisons remain unavoidable, they started to make their own sound clearer here, not to mention more memorable given that quieter experiments on earlier releases were no more than pleasant. Opening song North port shows the blend fully at play -- while found sound snippets and swirling, ghostly feedback loops played around the mix, a gentle techno pulse and minimal guitar suggest massive power instead of demonstrating it. Pure ambience is not the watchword for All systems are ghosts, but the use of loops as meditative soundwash throughout, as readily heard on tracks like 'Arabian nights' and 'A thousand frequencies', suggest what happens after the big explosive climax of a song by some of the groups' inspirations. Space exploration feeds into the overall feeling of the album, from name to cover art to the source of many samples, with the lengthy title track in particular feeling like a bit of a journey in classic space rock style, meditative keyboards, and an increasing propulsion defining the song. But one of the cleverest touches appears right at the end, where the song Orion gets lyrics -- and they turn out to be the words of Kylie Minogue's hit I should be so lucky, only delivered via vocoder as a sweetly melancholic sigh over a final shimmering musical background.

    4/5

    Ned Raggett, allmusic.com [200607]