One
of my absolute favorite sound sculpture/collage labels of all time is Lawrence
English’s Room40, from Australia. Both
he and his label put out truly engaging sound art; at times serene, at others
alienating, but always, Always, carefully arranged to provide an unspeakable
story arc for the mind to interpret away, again and again, to its heart’s
content. If I had the money, I’d buy everyone a copy of “Site-Listening:
Brisbane”, a sound collage of field recordings that is woven together so
expertly, I’d swear it was a dream sequence. It’s fanfuckingtastic and worth a
hundred bucks in my mind, but easily orderable from Experimedia for well under
ten.
If
I sound like a commercial here, the ickyness is due to my delaying the
non-preferred activity of doling out a “bad review” of $low’s tape “Lolly Gas”,
which was also produced from the Australian that released this one hour long
tape of digitally delayed guitar feedback. I really, really, really did not
enjoy listening to one full hour of this. I know first hand that it is damn
sure fun to dick around with delay pedals and feedback, but to release a tape
of it? One full hour of it?
I
hazily remember reading online record reviews in my late teens (nearly 20 years
ago! Ack!) and there was this posit that, and I paraphrase capital-R Roughly,
here; “If Maynard (Somethingorother) shat on a microphone and released a
[recording] of it, all of TOOL’s fans would eat it up and clamour for more.” If
I were a more enterprising person, I’d slap a TOOL sticker on this bad boy and
E-Bay it for a hefty sum. Am I being too harsh? Judge for yourself via clicking
the link below.
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- Jacob An Kittenplan
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