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$15.13

new to stock as of
october 3rd, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones

atp/recordings (uk) #atpr 030 cd

alexander tucker “portal” compact disc

poltergeists grazing
veins to the sky
omnibaron
husks
bell jars
energy for dead plants
another world
here

june 2008 release ; cd version of this most recent album by this american pedal-looping, skyward-glancing guitarist/composer ...

atp/recordings press release...

"texts of this nature usually require the author to make fashionable or wilfully oblique references to artists past and present. portal, the third alexander tucker long player for atp recordings is a work of such bewitching splendour that any such comparisons would read like hyperbole, thus doing it a great disservice. even tucker's previous albums (old fog and furrowed brow) seem like stepping stones in the wake of portal. but if we must draw comparisons then lets say chicago musician/composer jim o' rourke both are unparalleled in their pairing of the 20th century avant-garde techniques of composers like stockhausen and steve reich with the archaic sounding free-folk of john fahey, robbie basho and loren connors.

the late karlheinz stockhausen envisaged music where "instead of very precisely formed single notes there are little complexes little crystalline blooms that pass through a register form". during portal, tucker's finger-picked guitar lines become indistinguishable from the more traditional string arrangements and voice. these melodic clusters interweave like the paths incurved by a figure skater. this is still to say nothing of tucker's voice, which sounds as if it is emanating from a ghost channel on an ancient mixing desk rather than appear sung on top of the epochal arrangements. it's a voice comparable perhaps to meddle era david gilmour or john martyn on solid air. these are big claims of course but then portal is a work of such extraordinary majesty that even trying to surmise it in words seems like a heresy. if you disagree after listening, then i'm sorry to inform you that you are spiritually dead."

- tony f wilson.

$15.13

new to stock as of
august 22nd, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed

atp/recordings (uk) #atpr 015 cd

alexander tucker “old fog” compact disc

hag stones (5:12)
old fog (5:49)
the patron saint of troubled men (4:51)
phantom rings (7:00)
alahdeff music (5:47)
of late (5:22)
welsh harp (1:57)
hand of reign (7:14)
sung into your brightening skull (5:09)

atp/recordings press release...

alexander tucker is a new signing to atp recordings and his new full-length album old fog illustrates his use of field recordings and tape loops.

tucker began as vocalist in post-rock hardcore five piece unhome. in late 1999, tucker went on to tour with detroit space rockers fuxa, developing a shambolic approach to acoustic and free-noise electric guitar while beginning to play solo shows using tape loops, detuned guitar, dictaphones and field recordings processed through fx pedals.

in early 2000 tucker recorded a solo album of acoustic finger-plucking, spooked vocals and psych-electronics, which was picked up by tom greenwood of jackie-o-motherfucker and released under his u-sound archives label.

old fog is a delicate and beautiful record that feels like a soundtrack to a winter evening, evoking an eerie feeling that haunts listeners to seek more. his commanding performance as a musician has led to invitations to play guest guitar slots with the likes of jackie-o motherfucker, sunn0))) and bardo pond. his solo live shows are also a powerful document -- tucker shows that playing alone with a 4-track can sometimes be more effective than many live bands offer.

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