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Alone Gulcher 429 CD £8.99 Lou Rone is another sub-underground player whose ‘career’ arc has kept him well beneath the radar even though his presence at certain signal historical/cultural moments has been key as hell. Rone first made a dent in the putty-soft brains of punks back in 1975 when his band Cross played at the now-infamous CBGB Summer Festival in 1975 alongside Television, The Heartbreakers, Blondie et al but it’s his time spent with No Wave legends like Rudolph Grey and Von Lmo that assures him a place in the under-the-counter-culture pantheon. Rone hooked up with Grey in Danger before going on to join zoned avant/punk/metal group Kongress and finally joining future linguists Von Lmo. Since then he has recorded under a bunch of Cross-derived pseudonyms – Double Cross, Kross, Triple Cross – but Alone is the first ever solo release under his own name. Recorded between 2000 and 2002 in Lancaster, PA, Alone features a clutch of wired sci-fi instrumentals that cross MX-80-styled flash with a kind of avant-garage Last Exit feel, plenty of bleeping synths, a bit of Dolls-derived stomp and some epic metal leads. Although the electronics work to date it within the last few decades, the overall feel is of a historically isolated shot of electrified rock ala Simply Saucer, Von Lmo et al… |
