Radian will be in Brooklyn on June 8 for a rare show
Union Pool
484 Union Ave. at Meeker Ave.
Wednesday, June 8, $15, 9:00
718-609-0484
www.myspace.com/radianvienna
http://unionpool.blogspot.com
Austrian trio Radian creates fascinating cinematic soundscapes bult on layers of ambient electronic noise and acoustic and amplified instrumentation. Featuring Mosz Records cofounder Stefan Németh on guitars and synthesizers, John Norman on bass, and Martin Brandlmayr on drums, vibraphones, samples, and editing, Radian restructures, reorganizes, and rearranges its sound into a palimpsest through computer manipulation on such records as 2000’s TG11, 2002’s Rec.Extern, and 2004’s Juxtaposition, but they take it to a whole new level on their most recent disc, 2009’s Chimeric (Thrill Jockey). The six-track LP is, according to the band, “not a polished album. Within our context it is raw, broken, even dark sometimes. . . . A lot on this album is about control and the loss of control. The risk of failure.” Songs such as “Feedbackmikro / City Lights,” “Git Cut Derivat,” and “Kinetakt” move in and out of fractured chaos, powered by Brandlmayr’s ecstatic percussion. The songs twist and turn around quiet, even silent passages, always on the cusp of an explosion that never quite takes place. You can catch Radian tempt chaos, loss of control, and the risk of failure when it comes to Brooklyn for a rare show June 8 at Union Pool with Sawyer/Yeh/Wooley Trio and Koen Holthamp.