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| | | kye (usa) #kye 09 lp elklink “the rise of elklink” long playing record - tension tec
- pam, linda & minor members
- the spoons
- utension tex
- paul, ron & minor members
- the spoons
- you
| february 2011 release ; ... and the hits keep coming ; here, a proper issue of this swept-under-rug 1998 session by shadow ring / harry pussy spin-off elklink, initially prepped by polyamory back in 1999 & issued on cassette to an audience of some (along with a piece from an hhh comp the same year) ...
... those expecting either the witty repartee of sh or the feral bombast of hp will be perhaps elated to find neither here ; instead a continuous, tape-hiss addled melée largely sourced to lambkin & hoyos’ glottal goings-on, recorded mere nanometers from the trusty shure sm-58’s transducer-element, whisper-quiet, then amplified to era fidelity standards ... think “revue ou”, garnished perhaps with young love & a catch-all absorption of late 90’s “underground” tropes ; the end-result is one of resplendence, albeit presented in an at-times stomach-turning level of liquid detail ...
comes in a nice lavender sleeve detailed with a mug of a mustachio’ed graham ; insert reprints written evidence of perhaps the title’s lone excited quaff during its original lifespan ... shadow ring & harry pussy droogs have most likely already begun festooning their lairs with mink-skins in celebration of this ... “music” ... ‘s continued tangible existence, but even for the rest (esp. for the “historic” sound-poetry boffins in need of late 20th century witness) this is a fairly devastaing & rather personal window into which we’ve been granted a peek ... |
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elklink 'the rise of elklink' lp (kye 09) 2011
the rise of elklink originally appeared as a cassette on the storied polyamory label in 1999. behind the ambiguous moniker lurked core shadow ring member graham lambkin, aided by adris hoyos with a cameo from fellow shadow ring bandmate tim goss. although the rise of elklink was produced in tandum with the shadow ring's lindus lp, the two projects were different in intent. song form and narration are replaced by walls of quiet, crumbling vocal concrete, meaningless stoned monologues and adjacent audio seepage, captured to 4-track in the backroom of a small cuban crèche in miami fl.
this lp reissue restores all six tracks from the original cassette, and adds the elklink contribution to the colour in absence sound cd comp from the same year. lovingly remastered by jason lescalleet at glistening labs, the rise of elklink arrives in a sleeve design based on the original j-card with a deluxe insert reproducing brad sonder's classic period review, in a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies. |
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