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Chicago trio (Przemyslaw Drazek, Michael Kendrick, and Brent Fuscaldo)
Mako Sica debuted with the mini-album
Mayday At Strobe (2009), containing two lengthy pieces, and
the album
Dual Horizon (La Societe Expeditionnaire, 2010), containing
three lengthy (if a bit naive) songs: the shamanic I'itoi
(funereal chanting, death bells, cavernous rumble, Electric Prunes-like
church hymn rock, tripped-out dissonance, free-jazz jamming, and back to
the otherworldly chanting),
5th One Is The Dark (suspense of fluttering atonal guitars, sparse
free-form improvisation),
and the
21-minute Dunes (abrasive drone, dilated vocals, guitar crescendo,
tribal beat, ear-splitting guitar noise, anemic plodding).
Each jam evokes a post-rock version of
Scenic's
and
Calexico's
desert-rock, filtered through the austere brainy aesthetic of
Mogwai and
Godspeed You Black Emperor.
Essence (La Societe Expeditionnaire, 2012)
contains the
chamber post-rock poem Fate Deals A Hand,
torrential guitar twang over chaotic percussion, the usual lugubrious chanting,
guitar-driven crescendo a` la early Pink Floyd, subliminal barely audible
instrumental noise and incantations, and a grand psychedelic finale),
the sub-bluesy On Cracked Sea
and Chain Leg, which is basically a suite in three movements:
at first chaotic and noisy for the sake of being chaotic and noisy, then
profoundly haunting and psychological, and finally a
cryptic chanted ending.
There is still too much self-indulgent naivete and amateurship to turn their
intriguing ideas into memorable music.
Each piece lacks an organic, cohesive development, which means that the music
sounds completely arbitrary (and rarely coordinated). Some terrific passages,
but, as a whole, none of these jams truly blossoms.
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