Cel (Felix Cubin & Hubert Zemler) - Cel (Felix Cubin & Hubert Zemler) (LP)

The debut album from this German-Polish duo CEL (Felix Kubin & Hubert Zemler) is a test laboratory for rhythmic cadences and electrostatic discharges. Under the expert guidance of Hamburg producer Tobias Levin, they have created seven self-contained instrumentals enriched by vibraphone, xylophone and African percussion.Zemler's stripped-down mechanics and Kubin's erratic-electronics dovetail superbly. A sense of concentrated restlessness pervades the album - in the greater stream of things, some tracks come close to bursting their banks whilst others scale the loftiest heights of insanity. And yet - every movement, every tone fits perfectly. There is method to the madness, an exercise in systematic excess.