is the sound formation of the man that is A G Davis,
it serves as a audio outlet for the overall mission and art of
all his work, his albums play out similarly
to his progressive writing style, his works read as
sporadic word association that remains coherent and exciting,
the music could work as a companion to his words, going
in and out on tangents and returning to the same manic themes,
when i examined the packaging for this and other
B+G releases, i was put off by the instrument list
(drum machine, synth, samplers etc) and i figured i had
yet another poor and unimaginative electronica release,
but i was mistaken, Davis builds such a gigantic
wall of unbridled sound textures, that its neither
here nor there what tools are used, the samples
add the same sarcastic and sardonic atmosphere
that Tlasila offer up, that same brief and repeating
blueprint like a cd being fast forwarded,
the album has 12 tracks which weave in and out of each other,
the whole album is best played as one continuing piece,
track one features a section of glitched drum machine destruction and
skipping vocal screams, this section is repeated
through out the cd and ties the whole album together,
the album sounds and looks fabulous,
it was released on Belgium label Smeraldina-Rima,
they do beautiful cd-r releases with
packaging made to look like vinyl 45s,
this is fucking grinding glitchy hardcore noise
that is still intuitive and melodic,
akin to Sissy Spacek and others,
a great release!
the packaging is like i said, a piece of
cardboard the size of a 45 sleeve,
it has a gorgeous drawing by wouter vanhaelemeesch,
http://www.myspace.com/utopianethiopian
S-R003
CDR (ltd 60)
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