Abdul Moimême

SOLO WORK:

Jesse Goin  / Crow with no Mouth

Abdul Moimême, as I pointed out in my review of his work with Diatribes last year, is a guitarist mining the possibilities of a guitar approached as a sound-generator that happens to have a fret-board and an improbably long history […]

​http://crowwithnomouth-jesse.blogspot.pt/2011/11/gather-1.html

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MEKHAANU - La Forêt des Mécanismes Sauvages  - insubcd08

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Rui Eduardo Paes  / Bitabites

[...] Os sons assim produzidos vão do liliputiano, tão subtis quanto o ouvido pode captar, a um trovejar de dimensões wagnerianas ou de heavy metal, com distorção a condizer. A música de «Mekhaanu» vai de um extremo ao outro, constituindo uma ode à guitarra elétrica, uma invenção de George Beauchamp que remonta a 1931, e uma homenagem ao conceito de «preparação» (alteração dos timbres instrumentais por meio de aplicações físicas) de John Cage. Um grande disco, para ouvir com toda a atenção, que pode ser encomendado ou descarregado no sítio da Insubordinations. [...]

http://bitaites.org/artes/abdul-moimeme-ode-guitarra-eletrica  

 

Florence Wetzel  / All About Jazz

[…] He sets the instruments in motion and lets them sing to each other, nudging them in different directions as the seven tunes progress. The result is a kaleidoscope of resonance: there's undertones and overtones, clangs and urgent pulsations, scrapes and ancient echoes, arctic winds and dinosaur roars—a veritable feast of sound. In fact the title of the CD means "the forest of wild mechanisms," which is an apt description of the compelling world that Moimême creates. […] But whatever this music sets off in the imagination, it has a wild beauty and a freshness that's highly enjoyable throughout. […]

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44026

 

John Eyles  / All About Jazz

[…] Moimême generates an impressively broad spectrum of sounds from his instruments and is adept at using the two guitars to produce contrasting sounds which complement one another well, repeatedly creating the impression that two separate guitarists are interacting and trading phrases. […] The end result is invariably an appealingly deep soundscape with plenty of detail which makes for stimulating and dramatic listening.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44079   

 

Steve Pescott  / Reviews of New & Contemporary Records, CDs & Cº.

[…] It's a well-measured exercise that could easily be imagined as having purely electronic origins. […] I can only gawp and do the jawdrop at the invention presented here; adding late seventies era pitch black industrial manoeuvres and the faint afterglow of Brotzmann junior's stringwrench into the free aesthetic. After all, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Fred Frith's "Guitar Solos" album, which was my entry into the realms of distressed/heavily tweaked guitar experimentalism.

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_March_13.htm

 

Steve Pescott  / Reviews of New & Contemporary Records, CDs & Cº.

[…] I can only gawp and do the jawdrop at the invention presented here; adding late seventies era pitch black industrial manoeuvres and the faint afterglow of Brotzmann junior's stringwrench into the free aesthetic. After all, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Fred Frith's "Guitar Solos" album, which was my entry into the realms of distressed/heavily tweaked guitar experimentalism. […]

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_March_13.htm

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NEKHEPHTHU  - cs102

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Brian Morton  / The Wire (03/2009)

[…] Interesting to compare these solo guitar recordings with Olaf Rupp’s recent CD (reviewed in The Wire 301). Both musicians use a Stratocaster and a fairly simple amplification set-up, but whereas Rupp creates chunks of music out of strummed chords and clangorous pull-offs, Moimême turns his guitars ( he also uses a homemade solid body instrument) into zithers, gamelans, tam-tams – nothing, in fact, that sounds very much like a conventional electric guitar. It’s eerie, atmospheric and mostly very successful work, though a bit of a stretch at CD length. […]

 

Nuno Catarino  / Bodyspace

http://bodyspace.net/album.php?album_id=1516

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A selection of other reviews:

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Rui Eduardo Paes  / Jazz.pt

Baslato

https://www.jazz.pt/ponto-escuta/2016/11/30/produto-nacional-bruto/

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Rui Eduardo Paes  / Jazz.pt

Rumor

http://www.jazz.pt/ponto-escuta/2015/12/18/marco-scarassatti-eduardo-chagas-gloria-damijan-abdul-moimeme-rumor-creative-sources/
 

Stuart Broomer  / Point of Departure

Rumor

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-54/PoD54MoreMoments4.html

 

Fouter & Swick  / Sound Art and New Music

Exaíphnes
https://jimmy2hats.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/exaiphnes/

 

John Eyles  / All About Jazz

Multiple Reviews

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44079

 

Florence Wetzel  / All About Jazz

Multiple Reviews

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44026#.UTcQ-FcSbmc

 

Steve Pescott  / Reviews of New & Contemporary Records, CDs & Cº.

Eye of Newt

http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_March_13.htm

 

Fabrice Vanoverberg  / Le Son du Grisli

Eye of Newt

http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/2013/04/23/26945818.html

 

Vito Camarretta  / Chain D.L.K

Fabula

http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=7246

 

Guillaume Belhomme  / Le Son du Grisli

Fabula

http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/disques/index.html

 

Rui Eduardo Paes  / Jazz.pt

Fabula

http://rep.no.sapo.pt/criticas_novas.htm

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Eduardo Chagas  / Jazzearredores

Fabula

http://jazzearredores.blogspot.pt/

 

Richard Pinnell  / The Watchful Ear

Brume

http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=6953#more-6953

 

Vito Camarretta  / Chain DLK

Khettahu

http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?type=music&category=7

 

Brian Olewnick  / Just Outside

Le Beau Deviant

http://olewnick.blogspot.com/  

 

Massimo Ricci  / Touching Extremes

Complaintes De Marée Basse

http://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/diatribes-abdul-moimeme-complaintes-de-maree-basse/  

 

Stuart Broomer  / Paris Transatlantic Magazine

Khettahu

[…] At times it sounds like a railway yard. Cars are being moved about with some narrative going on or some plan for the next day, all of it characterized by metal-on-metal scrapings (though softened in the echo) and gamelan sounds too pure to escape deification.  At other times this sense of play in space, of the improvised diagram, branches out to the cosmos, so you're hearing vast dimensions and relations, notions that we only experience as they might be sketched out, a Balinese train yard in space. The amplified and echoed bowings and scrapings scarcely touch on their origins--the guitar as source of a body of gestures that are consistently refigured, almost a musique concrète element.  This is a recording of untoward beauty where the imagination and an exacting ear are unlikely to separate the original sounds from the alterations and reimaginings, or to locate them in time. […]

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Richard Pinnell  / The Watchful Ear

Khettahu

http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=5565#more-5565

 

Julien Heraud  / Improv Sphere

Le Beau Déviant

http://improv-sphere.blogspot.com/2011/07/heddy-boubaker-ernesto-rodrigues-abdul.html

 

Monsieur Délire  / Journal d'écoute

Suspensão

http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/search/label/Abdul%20Moim%C3%AAme

 

Rui Eduardo Paes  / Bitabites

Khettahu

http://bitaites.org/artamente/pobre-critica-de-musica-declaracao-de-incapacidade/

 

Stuart Broomer  / Point of Departure

Complaintes de Marée Basse

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD32/PoD32MoreMoments4.html

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