Scott Sinclair / Clinton Green - With Doors Open

CDR from Half/theory (HALF02)

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1. ToBe 2. # 3. Tamas 4. With Doors Open 5. Half Light 6. Medi Hiss 7. Hara 8. Medi 9. ## Scott Sinclair & Clinton Green - guitars and effects Joe Musgrove - computer on "With Doors Open" Improvisations recorded in Melbourne and Brisbane 2002-2004 Remixed and mastered by SS & CG A clash of underground titans four years in the making, With Doors Open is a twin axe assault on the conventions of the guitar, dragging it kicking and screaming into the outer limits of sound. Vast and varied territory is covered here, from chaotic thrashing noise to minimal drone and beyond. Collective weight of experience is on show, as the players cajole continual streams of surprising sounds out of their instruments in a tight and dynamic interplay, confident with both subtle and assaultative sounds and structures. Edited from improvisations conducted over several years, only the cream of the crop has been harvested from hours of recordings, and shaped into a intricate pattern of light and shadow. Opening with a squall of shrieking and scraping before rising into a glorious cacophony of freefalling noise, With Doors Open builds in tension and intensity before eventually opening out into soothing, drifting territory. Here too though, things are unsettled, never allowed to become narcoleptic, with dissonance hovering quietly in the background, gently nudging the listener, but never breaking them totally out of reverie. Despite their 6-string origins, for the most part sounds here elude easy identification, there's a willingness to bust out some gnarly axe moves, unlike most experimental guitar music. Appropriately enough, this fearlessness reaches its zenith and yields it greatest fruit on the album's title track (featuring Joe Musgrove of Biffplex) - a maximalist mantra of chromatic noise blur, given wings by a towering psychedelic 'solo', cutting through the noise like light beams through smoke. Review from http://www.cyclicdefrost.com An improvised guitar collaboration between Brisbane based Scott Sinclair and Melbourne's Clinton Green (Undecisive God), the recordings on this CDR were crafted over a three-year period and utilise a number of interesting approaches. These range from the abrasive though strangely rhythmic and quite powerful Tamas, which at 1.30 sounds like the arrival of impending doom, to the more textural splinters, scuffing and jagged stabs of sound of Medi Hiss, that no longer seem remotely related to guitar, melding the difficult textures with a slight ambient atmosphere. These pieces have been compiled and remixed from hours of recordings and nowhere is this more evident than the title track, which clocks in at eight minutes, beginning subtly before building with a searing power. Often working together they sound like a single sound source, a searing ambient drone, where they dip and surge ahead as one, their sounds interweaving, before breaking away to give detail to the work. One moment they'd happily sit alongside Caspar Brotzman, the next Derek Bailey and later Thurston Moore or even the drones of If Thousands, such is diversity of terrain covered. Bob Baker Fish