In case you start looking on any map of Sweden to find out where Bremort is - and based on the enclosed cityplan that comes with the CD, you could think it's somwhere - than you run into bad luck. Bremort doesn't exist. It's a fictitious city and during a limited amount of time we get a sound picture of this. Each picture comes with it's own sound. But beware: Hans Appelqvist doesn't make field recordings. Just like his previous CDs (see Vital Weekly 379 and 321) he continues what he does best: tinkling guitars, a piano being played loosely, strings are sampled and all of this set against a bed of rhythm, sometimes a bit breakbeat like, sometimes drum & bass like and even trip-hop like. In between he throws bit of conversation or daily sounds like a doorbell, an alarm or a telephone. This gives the whole thing a notion of a radioplay or a narrative, but somehow I don't think this is actually the case. The narrative aspect here acts mostly as just another instrument. It's a pi ty that Bremort isn't a real place, because I would have love to visit it. The CD is a really fine subsitute however. (FdW)
