Editions Gravats France レコード& CD

Review: Created by Thierry Merigout and Vincent Hachet in 1986, both students at the School of Architecture in Nancy, France, across six mind-melting albums Geins't Nait managed to push significant boundaries, getting as close to interpreting the surrealist art movement on record as anyone ever could. Aurally broad work that somehow has the consistency required to feel like a whole.

As is implied, Archives 2/3 is the second of three collections of archive work from the outfit, and it's every bit what fans would be hoping for. Trippy in the extremis, not least in fare like 'Casse 1', and its strange combination of whirring rhythm, static interference and public speech, or 'Inkel', which essentially constructs patterns of percussion from the sound of broken glass, it's like stepping into a new reality.