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Title:  Instant Nostalgia Artist:  Howard Stelzer Label:  Bake Records Format:  CDR Price:  € 9.10   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
Cut up collage noise from Intransitive label boss.

Vital Review:
HOWARD STELZER - INSTANT NOSTALGIA (CD-R on Bake Records)

The back of this CD-R explains a little about the music and serves at
the same time as sort of an apology for it. Which I think is not
really necessary (the apology I mean). A lot of people contributed in
one way or another to the making of this disc. Three tracks here, of
which the first one is surprisingly short: three and a half minutes
of environmental recordings (or things similar), fucked up by
distortion. Very old fashioned and lo-fi. Cool. The second track is
almost forty minutes long and starts off with tape manipulations
creating a layered noisy texture that is sometimes cut up and
interrupted, which makes it possible to hear the constant hum in the
recording. (The cover shows a broken cassette, so that's not very
surprising). Around eight minutes into the piece the noise makes way
for different sounds: rumbling and bits of fucked up music flash
through the ether. This part is a little quieter, but is followed by
harsher cut ups again. This sequence of events keeps repeating itself
throughout the rest of the piece (but not necessarily in the same
order). The last track actually starts off with someone playing (or
should I say torturing) a guitar and someone else beating around on a
drum kit. But the recording is of such an appalling quality, that one
can easily consider it as an environmetal recording, not unlike the
ones made by Eric Lunde for example. The audience (if there is any)
plays at least as big a part in this piece as the 'band'.
Fifteen minutes of noisy chaos to top off this very very lo-fi disc.
The title is very adequate: with a certain glee I remembered the days
when almost everything sounded like this. (MR)