Hun Hun / MDCIII

HUN HUN

Hun Hun is a Brussels-based electronic music producer duo of Jimmy (Hun) and Noé (Hun). They use expressive voices from old Turkish b movies to generate mini-odysseys playing with patterns and the repetition of melodies and ancient rhythms. Hun Hun’s compositions are experimental, ambient and timeless.

MDC III

One of reed player Mattias De Craene’s many projects – MDC III – is a project involving drums and saxophone. A striking difference: De Craene invited two drummers (Simon Segers, Lennert Jacobs), that have been active in the worlds of jazz, pop, free improvisation and experimental music. They are the ideal foil for De Craene’s vision, which seems to exclude no opposites. While the use of a recorder, electronics and percussion steers the music beyond the classic acoustic limitations, the result becomes strikingly rich with contrasts. What is abstract and introspective the first moment can switch – gradually or abruptly – to moments of fierce ecstasy the next. The music feels free (free from limitations, free to choose its own logic), but also invites. Shifting moods and textures are combined with intricate rhythmical patterns, as the drummers lock together in dense, complex and/or ritualistic grooves. A minimal pulse, accompanied by murmuring hisses of brushes and a serenading sax is contrasted with moments of exuberance. The result is many things at once, but despite these wildly varying colors, sounds, textures, rhythms and moods, they are all linked, part of a generous, iridescent whole.