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Pickaxe
Ulrich Krieger - electric sax, sax-tronics, grunts
Michael Jon Fink - guitar
Chas Smith - custom made pedal steel guitars
Marcelo Aguirre - drums, vokills, tapes
Surpassing previous offerings, the members of Pickaxe give birth to this new and
unique ensemble after a wide array of individual experiences on improvised music,
experimental composition, noise, electronic, electroacoustic music, instrument
building, and the uncanny margins of extreme metal. Fusing today’s best elements
in a bludgeoning whole, Pickaxe covers a cluster of flawless finesse, from just
intonation drones down tuned with fierce brutality, to chocks of blistering
improvised interaction, to envelop the listener into an arena of outermost
experience and suffocation.
Conceived by Marcelo Aguirre after two parallel projects active in the last couple of years, Gods of Rain (Aguirre/Fink, textural improvisation) and Sus Futuros (Aguirre/Krieger, improvised brutal death); Pickaxe combines both project’s elements adding the complex harmonic explorations and power of Chas Smith’s self-made titanium pedal steel guitar, taking their music to the fullest.