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| | | tip top (australia) #tip top 001 lp damo suzuki “the swiftsure session” double long playing record set | 3-sided double lp (4th side is blank) by can vocalist damo suzuki’s “network” (essentially... damo and a revolving cast of player-enthusiasts drawn from the pool of such in each locale damo visits whilst on his “never ending tour”), recorded live - direct to metal-mother/plate, no less - in a record mastering/pressing plant in melbourne, australia, in late 2004 (possibly the quickest turnaround from recording to its subsequent release in the history of... records).
for this performance/recording edition, the network consisted of damo on vocals, touch-label improv-minimal guitarist supreme (and longtime mms favorite) oren ambarchi on guitar, edmondo ammendola on bass, ollie olsen on synth, emil sarjia on guitar, and davey williams (presumably not the alabamian improv-guitarisy, but then again who knows anything for sure) on drums.
the quintet run through a single 3-side-long slow-burner, keeping the can oeuvre in close-check (oren, particularly, does a great job in channeling the late michael karoli’s aura via his minimalist echoplexed axe-weaving). in my mind the group provide as sympathetic a resonance to damo’s mythic intonement as do cul de sac (damo’s most visible recent sparring partners, as documented on the fantastic “abhayamudra” double-disc on strange attractors).
peculiarities of the recording process lend a unique sheen to the vibe of the whole project; for example, on the first and third sides there’s actually music in-progress from the second you put the needle on the very edge of the lead-in groove (nice touch), plus each side ends in a perfectly synced lock-groove. the fidelity is fantastic, what you’d expect from skipping a step or three of the recording/mastering/cutting/plating/manufacturing process (in fact, this music hasn’t touched any digital storage medium whatsoever... no 44.1k hard limit on the high end here folks...). and no need to pontificate further on the volume of soul-destroying power of the object itself and/or the music contained therein... |
| | damo suzuki (vocals)
oren ambarchi (guitar)
edmondo ammendola (bass)
ollie olsen (synthesizer)
emil sarjia (guitar)
davey williams (drums)
from orenambarchi.com:
“throughout 2004, oren ambarchi has been playing live shows in australia with damo suzuki, vocalist of krautrock legends can. on nov 24, 2004 they did a session in front of a live audience at corduroy records pressing plant in melbourne. the music was cut live-to-acetate "on the fly", and has been pressed up as a 3-sided lp set in an edition of 300 as "the swiftsure session”. |
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