_______program_Musique_Actuelle_Victoriaville____________In the hands of such well connected experts 'noise music' has rarely sounded as good as this!

_______P_Margasak_Chicago_Reader___________Each of the album's six peaces is amorphous but not haphazard, twisting, growing, and flowing according to a logic that evolves right along with the music. …Rarely does spontaneous music making sound so simultaneously ethereal and mechanical.

_______C_Blackford_Rubberneck____________It is often hard to believe that any human agency could be responsible – a deliberate effect, perfectly demonstrating how electronics can become a creative tool offering bold new possibilities. … What distinguishes this music from a lot of Dark Ambient discs, however, is the slow and purposeful process of improvisation, steering the music from any notion of pointless drift. Despite the austerty of the sound palette, there is a heartbeat and pulse to this music, and this, I guess, betrays human involvement.

_______A_S_Meister_freq____________Non-linearity is the order of the hour, the minute, the second. … Poire_z makes sense for several reasons: it is the product of musicians and music makers in love with sound, and this can be heard; there are few concessions made to easy listening; the sum of the parts is all.

_______G_Gershman_Signal_To_Noise____________This ensemble strikes the rarest balance between caprice and direction, combining Müller's impromptu concrète quality with Guhl/Möslang's refined ruckus and Erik M's mercurial maneuvers for a genuinely jubilant and interactive presentation.

_______F_Rubolino_Cadence____________Although the contributions of the individual artists are not easily isolated, the collective experiment comes together in sweeping waves as a unified endeavor. Unquestionably, they have already solved the Y10K problem.

_______B_Meyer_Signal_To_Noise____________Poire_z' sweet surprise lies in how nuanced and harmonious its six tracks are.

_______G_Gershman_Motion____________poire_z's ambitious centerpieces achieve the fluidity of improvised poetry and the emotional heft of hihest drama.

_______F_Couture_allmusicguide____________Poire_z's music is not about individual performances – there is no way to tell who makes what sounds. It focuses on synergy, on collective movement, on synchronized build-up and release, on osmotic changes. … For an early encounter, this CD already shows a strong sense of direction. That's why it ended up beeing one of the most surprising releases of that year. Strongly recommended.

_______D_Hirsch_Othermusic_______________Poire_z's aesthetic doesn't fall in line with the typical call and response ethos of free-improv that often builds from silence to chaos and back. Instead, the electro-acousticians of pz work with laminal procedures -- they juxtapose textures, alternate currents, and combine signals into dense meshworks. Huddled over their tables of equipment, Muller, Moslang, Guhl and M often look like scientists, but the fruits of their labor reflect the twisted sense of humor and sly word play of lexicon artists.

_______B_Olewnick_All_Music_Guide________In fact, one of the many salient aspects of this recording is the control the musicians have over their potentially overpowering arsenal. Each adjusts himself to the musical needs of the moment, not to showboating. … The improvisation is full of pulsations at varying angles to each other, overlaid by yet another rich tapestry of abstract sound. poire_z are masters of this form of free improvisation and + finds them near the top of their game.

______J_Noetinger_Revue&Corrigée____________Chacun d'entre eux nous surprends pour un résultat inattendu, non pour la disparition de chaque personnalité au profit d'un consensus formel, mais pour la création d'une nouvelle entité. Un group est né!

_______T_Jarrier_Jazzman____________De l'électronique pas tapageuse, tout en profondeur, façonnée par des musiciens qui ont fouillé avec exigence les resources instrumentales. Un parti pris musical d'une grande rigueur, continuum animé de mouvements vibratoires sousjacents, enchevêtrement de pulsions internes, tout en nuances et demi-teintes. Les décalages s'opèrent, infirmes, ponctuant en douceur, s'imbriquant en souplesse, passant du moelleux à l'acidité, du salé au sucré, mais toujours à mi-voix. Une musique fine et intimiste, qui ouvre l'électronique et la musique contemoraine à l'improvisation.

______Dino_Revue&Corrigé____________Un disque qui éclaire nettement ce qu'on peut entendre par musique contemporaine, aujourd'hui.

______G_Cerutti_Improjazz____________Leur démarche peut s'apparenter à celle du peintre Kurt Schwitters qui collectait les déchets les plus banals de la vie quotidienne afin de les agencer par collage dans des compositions aussi rigoureuses que poétiques.

_______L_Catala_Octopus____________Une expérience de génèse musicale comme il en est (trop) rarement proposé.

______Programm_Konfrontationen_Nickelsdorf_2000____________Die Musik oder, besser gesagt, das Geheimnis von poire_z besteht aus der geglückten Mischung verschiedener Individualisten aus verschiedenen musikalischen Genres, die sich im Ensemble so weit zurücknehmen, um ein erstaunlich homogenes Gruppenspiel zu verwirklichen, welches in der neuen zeitgenössischen Improvisationsmusik und deren versuchter Symbiose mit der elektronischen Musik als beispielhaft gelungen bezeichnet werden muss.

______R_Ankli_ BZ_Taktlos_Basel____________Ebenso verspielt wie hoch konzentriert vermochte das Quartett Kopf, Herz und Bauch anzusprechen.

______A_Pranzl_Skug____________Eine unglaubliche Dichte an Sounds. Raumfüllend, bewegungsarm. Eher statische elektronische Drones dominieren, doch brodelt es darunter beträchtlich. ... Kaum jemals zuvor … klang eine Donnerschmiede so betörend schön.

_______R_Dittmann_Bad_Alchemy____________... man trifft auf Kernfusionen, auf osmotische Prozesse des Kommunizierens, des Verschmelzens von Drones und Waves, auf Maschinengesang. ... Und langsam dämmert einem, worauf Nietzsches Bild vom Ritt auf dem Rücken eines Tigers anspielt.

_______M_Büsser_testcard____________... Heraus kommen schönste, hervorragend arrangierte Soundcollagen, sehr stringente Improvisationen ... Poire_z hat zu einer Form gefunden, Geräuschimprovisationen sinnlich schmackhaft zu machen, dermassen lecker, dass über diese befremdlichen Sounds auch noch so etwas wie befreite Musik hörbar wird, die Befreiung nicht nur daraus zielt, aller Emotion zu entsagen, sondern die Emotion geradezu fördert.

_______H_J_Schaal_Zeitschrift_für_Neue_Musik____________Ein dröhnender, finsterer Alptraum, der fremd wie aus ausserirdischen Lebenswelten tönt – und doch ein Lichtblick ist für eine neue, strenge Menschen-Avantgarde.

_______E_Genio_Blow-Up____________"Presque_Chic" mostra, nascosta dietro impressionanti crescendo d'impostazione free, una modernità sonora esemplare. I quattro, anche nei momenti in cui generano caos, hanno una nitidezza d'intenti talmente lampante da lasciare l'ascoltatore nell'unica postura possibile: a bocca aperta.