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Songs Our Mother Taught Us Agaric 1995 CD £10.99 Songs Our Mother Taught Us is the latest Borbetomagus album, a tour document that bundles two particularly infernal performances from a series of European shows that took place back in the spring of 1999. “Aftershock” is taken from a performance at The 13th Note, Glasgow, April 18, 1999, while “Songs Our Mother Taught Us” and “After Aftershock” are both drawn from a performance at The Spitz in London on April 21st, 1999. Here the group are operating deep within the zone where pure energy spontaneously gives birth to form, where F/X damaged saxophones, bells locked together, blur into the sound of table-top guitar and timbral distinctions melt in the white heat of fevered trio exchange. Miller chokes convulsive, malformed riffs from his six horizontal strings while Dietrich matches Sauter’s volcanic tongue action with metallic reports from way up in the most phantom register. Killer. |
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Experience The Magic Of Borbetomagus Agaric 1992 CD £12.99 Nice cocktail-style presentation of a clutch of infernal live cuts culled from various CBGB's blow-outs. You wanna talk about the real junk? |
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a Go Go Agaric 1997 CD £10.99 Brand new album from one of the all-time great rock/noise/jazz/Industrial units. The trio of Jim Sauter (reeds), Don Dietrich (reeds) and Donald Miller (prepared electric guitar) have long plowed a solitary path parallel to contemporary developments in avant-thought, joining the dots between the electric ecstasy of Jimi Hendrix, the ferocious lung-power of Black Ark-era Arthur Doyle and the guitar-smashing aspect of Masami Akita's Merzbow. Much more than simply 'noise' music, the trio ground their attack in intense physical interaction, locking the bells of their horns together, contorting their bodies and altering their voices via reeds attached to rubber hoses or metal tools attached to guitar strings. The music fully delivers on everything you ever believed rock music promised: oblivions of exploding overtones, lightning-strike riffs, deliverance from the tyranny of pansy-ass structure, enthroning energy over form... and this is another massively potent installment, recorded live in France in 1998 with the trio erecting huge walls of smoke and steel that forsake any notion of dialogue whatsoever in favour of a particularly pure form of simultaneity. Highly recommended. |
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Snuff Jazz Agaric 1988 CD £10.99 Expanded reissue of this signature side from the apocalyptic Industrial-strength jazz trio of saxophonists Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich and guitarist Donald Miller, originally released in 1988. The eloquent title perfectly sums up the brutal nature of the sonics, with incredible post-Ayler destructo saxophone fed through jaws of electricity. This edition also adds a pair of massively tasty extras, with the addition of a rare 1990 track originally given away with the Japanese Noise Zero Hour magazine and a further 9:44 of unreleased sky-quaking form. |
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s/t Important Records No Cat LP £14.99 Debut album for the horse-killing free music trio of Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Ben Hall (Graveyards). Great to hear Ben in this kinda context, playing in a rolling propulsive style that is the closest I’ve heard him come to the whole post-Milford school of exploded time. Dietrich’s sax – naturally – dominates the sound, with a warp of Hendrixoid F/X contorting the tongue logic until it sounds like he’s licking a cement mixer. Yeh’s strings give the group an intense vertical lift and at points it sounds like he’s sawing the whole group straight off of the ground. A great record in the tradition of Babi Music, Demo Moe, The Celestrial Communication Orchestra and Borbetomagus. All exclusive material, none of which was on the American Tapes CD-R releases. |
