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It’s the third time for the dark experimental
electronic outfit Attrition coming to
Athens.Compiling a catalog of 15 albums - studio, live, and soundtrack - plus a
batch of collection discs, Attrition have always been a mass of pleasurable
contradictions. As I got satisfied with the
first Attrition gig 6 years ago, I was looking forward to their new performance.The
difference now is the new female singer Samantha Hindman-Smith and this gig
was the debut show for her. On electronic arrangements Martin Bowes' wife, Kerri.True to form, their music engulfed this Saturday night Death Disco like a grey fog. Strolling on stage, inhaling on a joss
stick like it was a cigarette holder, Bowes slowly makes his presence felt. He
emerges from the smoke and purges himself of the songs with his distinctive voice. Bowes employs an operatic female vocal in many of the
songs in order to infuse contrast to the often-used dark spoken word male vocal
producing a unique collection that is
lyrically challenging and musically clever. From the deep-spoken voice of Martin to the operatic drama of
Samantha. Dramatic, traumatic, ecstatic all sound like typical Attrition lyrics
and the music leads the listener into the hypnotic soundtrack to a nightmare,
spanning the myriad of eclectic and dark genres of dark ambient to
dance-friendly electro. Yesterday's set took in the most from their nineties dread-leaden dark electro to
their latest albums.The haunting music of ‘Two Gods’,the atmospheric dark electro of ‘One Horse Rider’, the
danceable electronic funk of Acid Tongue’ and ‘Mercy Machine’, all these
combining sometimes with Martin ‘s theatrical presentation.






The gig opened by the supporting act,the
one-man electronic project Denial Of
Service.Dos is also an excellent visual artist who has worked on songs of famous musicians like D.Bowey ,so yesterday we
had the opportunity to hear his trippy music-an
amalgam of experimental electro,ebm,berlin school electronic- combined with his
experimental visuals at backround.


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