Blog : Audiopollen 06 September 2006

Audiopollen 06 September 2006

Tonight we played a mish mash of electro-acoustic, concrete and esoteric musicks.

We opened with 3 tracks from Tod Dockstader's recent Aerial#3 (Sub Rosa) entitled "dissent", "howl" and "wheeze".  These tracks come from about a decades worth of Shortwave scanning and are quite startling and evocative.  Mutated choirs, agressive robot drills and electronic chanting.

Lionel Marchetti's "Visions Nocturnae" followed up from his recent, charmingly packaged 3 x 3" cd set Red Dust set (Crouton).  Marchetti approaches musique concrete with a sense of humour and modern technology and the result sounds far less stuffy than ye olde skool.

Irr App Ext's "A Confluence of Trivialities Coagulate Into an Unspeakable Whole" from "Their Little Bones, Becoming Sharp, Find Repose but Fail to Avoid Worrying a Breach in the Ghostly Skin, the Which Separates That Above from That Below (this being The Last and Final Seal) and Whereupon All Light Evacuated the Furnace. Several Consequences Ensue." (self released) followed with more Nurse like electro-acoustic material.  The packaging for this release was quite astonishing also: http://www.holocenesound.org/irr/disco/boxesandbones.html

leading us to Coh's "Lungs Leak on a Lullaby" from recent Threshold House release "Above Air"  It's nice to hear Ivan Pavlov move away from the Pansonic meets Ryoji Ikeda blips and throbs and into something a little more spatious and curious.  

Hafler Trio, Andrew Liles and Colin Potter give us "Exclusivity on an Acquatic Theme"  - yep it sounds like drone - a nice one though.  From the album "Three Eggs" apparently this was to be the merchandise for an aborted tour.  It has been released in any case by Important Records.

The last triptych leads us nicely to Englands Hidden Reverse.

First we hear a snippet of Soundpooling (ICR) - a live recording of Nurse With Wound (who have just recently started gigging again after 20 years) which manages to be at times ambient with a level of creepiness that amps up until it explodes in shattered of distorted grunting!  YAY!

Current 93 have made perhaps their most above-ground release with Black Ships Ate the Sky (Durtro).  Apparently all those closet David Tibet fans have been holing up waiting for the Free Folk explosion and now it is time to pay the messenger.  We played "The Dissolution of the Boat".

Finally Coil get a play with their track "Sex with Sun Ra PT2" from Black Antlers - originally a tour cd that has been expanded, remixed and released through Threshold House.  ALL Coil albums are as essential as they are patchy and this one is no different.  However it provides a more spacious view of the tower from which Balance fell than Ape of Naples which functions much more like a traditional album.  The Sex with Sun Ra tracks are perhaps the highlights mixing crunched percussion with exotic granulations, equal parts mystique and wish fulfillment.

Added by skon on 13 September 2006