Green Isac

I like these guys immensely; as evidence, here's my review of Etnotronica from my former mag e/i, posted on their site.

"Any new Green Isac recording is cause for rejoice, except amongst the few who’ve yet to fall under their spell. Too bad, because this engaging Norwegian duo have been spinning their fourth-world yarns as long as ‘fourth-world’ has been tagged a legit ‘genre.’ These chaps go way back, farther back than most would think, back to the early 90s in fact, when their debut Strings And Pottery came upon the scene to mostly vast indifference save for this writer, who exalted its many virtues in this magazine’s foolscap back in that epochal 1990 moment. The impact of a disc like Etnotronica (unpretentious, accurate, succinct title) is softer these days but no less satisfying: manipulating a wellspring of hand-forged percussives, flutes, shakers, cellos, varied programmed instrument loops and sundry other electronic paraphernalia, Green Isac seem at this point in history to be very of the moment. We need them and their multikulti takeover of the global village. From the African plasma beatstuffs of ‘Ahab’ and post-Jon Hassell urban jungle weirdness of ‘Man vs. Lion’ to the poignant guitar-pierced penumbra of ‘Ambino’ and tenth dimension backwards-masked rituals of ‘Zu-puls,’ Green Isac are practically required listening. They remind us that the wonders of the pan-cultural milieu needn’t be bastardized by Western colonialism; shuck off the skin, and the whole human condition all beats to the same drummer underneath. And they can bang on their drums all day as far as I’m concerned. - Darren Bergstein, e/i Magazine, installment 7

Hope a new recording does in fact surface - their last one was d/l only...an actual CD release would be most welcome.