MPAC is a project of former KCOU D.J. and indie filmmaker Tyrone Davies. Tyrone co-hosted Same As It Ever Was and pioneered Encyclopedia Esoterica, the show that played nothing but weird, weird shit. As expected, Tyrone's latest artistic endeavor is not for mass consumption, but for hardcore noise/art-mongers who think they've heard it all.

Halfway between experimental noise art and acoustic folk, 405 Melbourne is an album that juxtaposes everything from the traditional to the absurd. Instruments involved in recording this album included televisions, alarm clocks, computer printers, a swamp cooler, Atari and Nintendo games, radios, tape recorders, pots, pans, table tops, and virtually anything else that Davies could get his hands on. The album also includes conventional instruments such as guitars and bass guitars, but generally foregoes drums and keyboards in favor of sampled noises. Columbia’s Tacit Blue Project helps Tyrone out on two tracks. There is even a morose cover of Johnny Cash’s “Long Black Veil”. My favorite things about this album were video game chirps and electronic farts swimming in a field of static Tyrone describes his work as “a stream-of-consciousness poem that takes it's listener on a little voyage through a lo-fi world of dissonant melodies with cacophonous stops and starts. The album is filled with bizarre interruptions that are designed to keep the listener from zoning out, or forgetting that the music is playing. 405 Melbourne is an attempt to be beautiful and abrasive, soothing and arresting. In short, the album is intended to be many contradictory things all at the same time.”

405 Melbourne is an engaging, almost interactive listen. When asked for comment, Matthew Perry said, “I don’t get it”. I’m not sure if I do either, but Tyrone Davies is a one-man folk noise explosion who doesn’t want to be deciphered too easily.

this cd is not available at most record stores, however, it can be found at loaf-i.com.

- Jason K-fer