(Catalogue no. 14781)
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Title Description:
Tim Coster: field recordings
Richard Francis: computer
Rosy Parlane: guitar, computer
Mark Sadgrove: feedback, linuxCsound
Clinton Watkins: guitar
Paul Winstanley: electric bass, digital feedback
A digital document of a live performance by this New Zealand Sextet at the Version Festival is presented by the prodigious Scarcelight label. The six players on this disc are all of the interesting islands of experiment, New Zealand. Most of them will be unknown to all but the most discerning improv/sound explorers. Rosy Parlane might be the most well known among this group because of his international gigs, record label, and collaborations with the Mego fam and AMM old heads. But donÕt sell the others short. Search the web for people with the last names Coster, Francis, Sadgrove, Watkins, and Winstanley; you will find connections to the Japanese improv community, computer programmers, contemporary sound art, and the keenest experimental music labels around the world. These gentlemen of the musical edge bring all of their contact with the world outside of NZ into this bite size segment of group projection and plop it right on top of the deep base of homegrown experimentation that their country is known for. The result is a minimal sound that subsumes the individual and grows colonies of pure sound on circles that touch on Japanese and European lowercase improvisation and the digital drizzle of thousands of laptop humanoids worldwide. As the groupÕs name aptly directs, this sound is one of flat, open spaces. But true plains dwellers(ask any Pawnee ghost floating around Genoa, Nebraska) will tell you that the plains are full of details. This recording is the sound of strange mechanical cities just beyond the horizon blending in with the locusts, pebbles, smoldering fires, and stars grinding the sky. The electrical and metallic signifiers become part of the environment. Eating and spitting out the sounds that hate it or ignore it. These sounds are created by human hands pushing buttons on computers, manipulating field recordings, listening to their guitars, and soothing the bass. The care and thought of the sound put into the creation of this piece give no indication of time, only place. This could be a full 80 minutes of disc if you listen without digital counters and little hands telling you how much time youÕve lost. A brown sleeved, infinite 33 minutes that prove that New Zealand is and has been representing with the best of the world class improvisors and sound artists.
9/10 Warren Realrider Foxy Digitalis
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