Amazing Sounds - Review by Dominique Chevant
June 17, 2008

EXPERIMENTS '80 - '82
RICHARD BONE
Quirkworks Laboratory Discs

As suggested by its title, this album moves away from Richard Bone's style in these late years, which usually fluctuates around melodic Ambient, to enter an electronic exploration of a much more experimental nature, one which used to dominate the artistic path of the composer betweeen 1980 and 1982. As if it were a re-release of a selection of tracks that once appeared released into tape in a limited edition, this "Experiments '80-'82" opens an impressive window to The Unknown. The electronic music here included goes in fact far beyond a mere collection of "experiments", offering us entire outlooks of unusual worlds of sound, in an approach that, given its wide vision and daring nature, renmind us of truly pioneering samples of the beginnings of Electronic Music as a genre, such as for instance the soundtrack for "Forbidden Planet" by Louis and Bebe Barron, the brilliant couple who contributed to establishing the basis for electronic music as a world apart from acoustic music.

DOMINIQUE CHEVANT