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Title:  A Love So Bright It Shines A Hole Through My HEart Artist:  Jason Talbot Label:  Crippled Intellect Productions/ C.I.P. Format:  CD Price:  € 12.00   Mp3 samples: none

Title Description:
Not only is this disc the winner of the "longest title, CD division" award in the C.I.P. collection, it's also Talbot's debut solo CD. As a solo artist, Talbot has a refreshing take on how to "perform" a turntable, which is his primary sound source. Of course, he also "plays" cassette machines, a piano(!), and a minimal soup of electronics, but the turntable is the main beast in the arsenal. In addition to modifying vinyl recordings, he also modifies the tonearm and needle, with objects including balloons, wood, and sheet metal. As far as my ears go, this disc falls (roughly) into two parts. The first is an elegant take on musique concrete, with numeorus sounds from diverse sources. Sometimes it sounds like silverware falling down an elevator shaft, other times like a 400 gallon glass bottle rolling along a field of chopsticks. The second "part" is a live recording of a tornado of turntable distortion abuse; sandblasted vinyl meets contact microphones squealing away and a bag full of angry, wet cats. Talbot's CD comes at you from numerous directions; he does it well, he does it concisely, and for a debut CD, he opens a path before him that stretches far and wide.
A self-styled 'turntable abuser', Boston resident Jason Talbot is the latest in a long line of musicians to draw from the conceptual well first dug by John Cage on Cartridge Music. He uses the tone arm of a turntable as both a device to pick up vinyl sounds and as a de facto microphone amplifying the textures of sheet metal, balloons and wood into gleeful explosions of noise. Talbot's first CD release outside of his improv work with Howard Stelzer exhibits a comical excessiveness in splattering the stereo field with tightly gated chunks of malfunctioning noise, orgasmic arrhythmia and varispeed squiggles, referencing both Ground-Zero and Nurse With Wound's 'Sylvie And Babs'.
(Jim Haynes in the Wire)

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