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"Kahn
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recordings is no difference"
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
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Thirty minutes of improvised dark noise recorded live at a London session. Processed vocals, electronic manipulations and Moog synthesiser combine to unholy effect.
“Powerful music that is of a darker and intense kind” –
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
sok049 The Static Memories - The bloudy vision of John Farley £8 SOLD OUT
Nine solo tracks by Morgan, relaxedly running the gamut
from field recordings to guitars, zithers, bicycle lights and papers of varying
dampness. The pieces are brief, from one to seven minutes spread over 33
minutes and seemingly very, very casual, although I certainly can't be sure of
this. But they raise the point: how to distinguish the happenstance from the
intentional and, of course, whether it's always worth doing at all. The field
recording from Nairobi that occupies the disc's first 58 seconds sounds
randomly chosen, though pleasant while the ensuing cut features a guitar whose
sounds seem pitched halfway between arbitrary plucking and Ellington's
"The Single Petal of a Rose". The title cut has soft taps, like
someone idly thrumming their fingers on a tabletop with nimb-ic hums and the
odd squall while "objectssabrasion"'s flints, papers, tuning forks and
foam rubber scurry about noisily and with good humor, causing a general ruckus.
So it goes...It's the kind of music that, for me, works better when less
concentrated upon, in which case, depending on the volume level (I've done from
very low to room-disturbing), it integrates with the surroundings quite well or
disrupts things with equal efficiency. I think, given my druthers, I'd have
preferred longer tracks but, as is, "Blue Poles" is oddly
ingratiating and gradually worms its way under one's skin, irritating and
tickling in like ratios.
- Brian Olewnick, Just OutsideCurious, perhaps, enough, label boss Paul Khimasia, does something else, music-wise, himself on what seems to be the first release under his own name on his own label, since it was founded in 2001. Unless of course these pieces of field recordings are put together in a similar free jazz mode, which I doubt. Those field recordings make up however a part of this release, not all. The other part is a combination of instruments (zither, e-bow, whistle) and electronics (feedback, shortwave radio, no-input mixer) and acoustic, such as copper tubing. His work becomes more and more interesting I think. These nine pieces here are a fine combination of whatever interests him, and that seems to be a lot. A bit of pure field recordings, a bit of electro-acoustic sound collages and a bit of music. Other than the pieces which use field recordings, which are actually a bit more sonically crude than what is usually the case with this kind of music, his 'other' pieces seem more put together along the lines of improvisation, but it's all, obviously I should say, less free jazz inspired. It's all a bit crude, but it has a fine charm throughout. Highly varied, this gives a fine clue as to what Morgan wants, so a fine introduction.
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
Daniel Spicer is an artist who works mainly using his voice, as we have learned from his previous release on the same label, or his more recent tape for My Dance The Skull (see Vital Weekly 875), which I quite enjoyed. Here we have his sound poetry solo in three pieces, but in the other five he plays with other musicians, such as Tom Roberts on acoustic guitar and percussion, his 8 year old daughter Evie on violin and in two pieces, which last a total of fifteen minutes with free jazz groups. I don't think I recognized many names around here (Ron Caines (alto), Gus Garside (double bass), Andy Pyne (drums), Jeff Shurdut (alto), Hektor Fontanez (guitar), Derek Maxwell (drums), Gene Janas (double bass) if that helps. Spicer himself gets credit for voice, but also plays violin, trumpet, harmonica, bamboo sax, bells, gong and keyboard. Much of this is free music, again, obviously in the pieces with many musicians, but also in a small combination there is a strong love to keep things as free as possible. Lots of wind instruments here too, indeed, and that too makes this perhaps a bit too free jazz for me again. Words, vocals, voice, are all used in a similar free spirit, and not necessarily seems to be about something we should be able to understand.
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
sok044 Bolide Perm Mutations £8 OUT NOW!
Another trio of releases on the The Slightly Off Kilter label, of which the release by Bolide is my second encounter with their music. This is a six piece band from Brighton, formed in 2007, and originally they were the Bolide Awkwardstra, for an one-off gig, 'but the failed to disband', which is always a good reason for staying together, I should think. There isn't much information on the cover, about the line up, and who plays on which track, which would be nice to know, as the website says: "A collection of small groupings, solos, live artefacts, memento mori, phenomena, studio ritual, serendipity, phases of the moon, the tides, collage…" The music is all about free improvisation and the saxophone plays an all important role here, along with other wind instruments. It seems all inspired by free jazz, more than free anything else, but maybe that's because the wind instruments play an important role. Otherwise there is also the use of guitars, electronics and there is a bit of chit-chat around these recordings, which made me think that they were busking around, and took these recordings from the street. Perhaps not. I wrote back in Vital Weekly 835 about Bolide playing freaky music, played by freaky people, jamming together, all in the spirit of say Nihilist Spasm Band, which I reviewed last week. This band might be regarded as their grand sons. Maybe they'll be around for close to fifty years? Now that would be great, I should think.
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
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"...refined build up, internal
drama..."
- Frands de Waard, Vital Weekly
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"a great release with some excellent music of an experimental yet varied nature."
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
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"An excellent album packed with invention whilst retaining a real sense of familiarity, it felt both comfortable and new all at once. It toyed with genres that all readers of this magazine will be very familiar with but in doing so it opened them up a little to a more contemporary exploration of their limits."
- Ian Holloway, Wonderful Wooden Reasons
"...you'll want to initiate yourself with this release, 24 minutes of some of the most painful honesty and rawness comitted to disk."
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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"...six separate poems over a single 34 minute track, often overdubbing himself, and adds some low-key non-determinate noises as backdrops to his voice. Many techniques; punning with synonyms and Joycean jumblings, passages in Latin, basic and earthy "pastoral" imagery, many lapses into Anglo-Saxon cursing, with each unlikely tale enhanced with numerous grotesque and startling images. Spicer is also capable of a non-verbal moaning noise, not unlike the improvisor Phil Minton, and adds even more unsettling layers to his bizarre tirades thereby. Plenty of eccentric and black humour to savour too."
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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"...wispy and wraith-like drone music, the lyrical content littered with images of dreams, mirrors, light and broken pictures of stark alienation..."
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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"Poetry and jet-black gothic darkness combine..."
-Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
"The first two tracks have the insouciant, druggy rehearsal room feel, while "Frosty Lee" is a more straight ahead free-form rocky jam with the kind of exciting live edge that almost makes me think I've discovered a rare 1971 heavy-prog underground guitar group to match Captain Marryat. Nifty, edgy, vital playing throughout."
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
"The collage of sounds is perhaps no more than we might expect from this area of composition, gentle blends of sounds coupled with sudden jumpcuts, layers of material building slowly and intensifying until suddenly shifting to something else. The music is well executed and there is much to say for the brevity of the performance, not allowing the sounds to outstay their welcome..."
- Richard Pinnell, The Watchful Ear
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- Joe Candy, Honest Music For Dishonest Times
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"Long episodes of drifty and understated noise pour from their Roland amps, but overall this is no less deliciously turgid than the Liquid Metal Flesh two-cd sprawl..."
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
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"...remarkable sonic textures rub up against each other to the extent that I would say the instrument's true voice is unleashed..."
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