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| | | de stijl (usa) #ind 076 lp messages “messages” long playing record - shruti box (16:52)
- tambura (9:05)
- ukelin (4:26)
| april 2010 release ; ... had a single (tsr-label) by these guys (tres warren, taketo shimada, spencer herbst) a little while back & though much of it, but didn’t get the bigger picture / implications of the group’s whole modus / game-plan until i learned that taketo shimada was the kind soul responsible for organizing yoshi wada’s “pipe dreams” exhibition / performance at the emily harvey this past december, pretty much privately funded by himself as a labor-of-love, bringing yoshi back out to east coast for the first time in two decades ; respect ...
avant-garde day-traders these guys are not ; while psychic ills’ tres warren’s guitar playing offers perhaps the most tangible link to reality here (he’s got a fine, almost bobby beausoleil-ish way with phrasing that works extremely well here) it’s spencer & taketo’s primeval drone-thump that anchors this music in past fantasy, yes, specifically referencing the whole la monte young / theater of eternal music “thing” (the hand-drumming ; a clear angus maclise link throughout) but doing so from within the walls of the same canal-street walkups said intoned in/upon decades back ... their commitment to clarity-of-vision is tenable & the music, largely eastern-looking tribal free improv, thrives because of it ...
one of my favorite records of the year thusfar (who knows ? maybe i’ll canonize it in list form in 2015 ... i kid ; i’ll have the 2009 list ready by july 1st) ; highly recommended !!! |
| | de stijl press release... |
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messages
ind 076 lp
the baby believes the womb is the universe. at birth there is a glimmer of light and a shifting of space. i was there, but now i am here. then there are still but 2 things : me and the universe. and then what happens is other people.
from a note sounded in 1960 and held for a long time, a continuum of sound has been sluiced along a diagonal of personal ecstasy, and some have come to call it a drone. surrounding the drone is a genre, and within, wheat and chaff often comingle all too comfortably. but with tones as thick and texturally luxuriant with spiritual resonance as their long, glorious hair, messages are the two worthy gurus currently contributing to the echo.
messages evoke the womb. and when the womb smiles, it whispers messages, and then there is the first glimmer of light .. |
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