The fourth album by the Belgian piano trio De Beren Gieren has a pessimistic concept. While composing, pianist and composer imagined what archaeologists will excavate in the future and what view this will give them on our present day. That results in a dark record, musically balancing between albums like from EST and from Hauschka. Dug Out Skyscrapers has the same oppressive and apocalyptic
… atmosphere as the aforementioned titles, in which piano, bass and drums are complemented by ghostly electronic soundscapes. The slow and drawn-out Provisional Days, in particular, predicts that future researchers will not find much good looking, which of course provides a vision of the current era. The three flawlessly playing members of De Beren Gieren must have made up that silly band name once in a drunken or corny mood. On the atmospheric as desolate Dug Out Skyscrapers they sound completely sober. (MR)more
