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Cam Deas/Spoono
Split
Blackest Rainbow Recordings No Cat
LP
£13.99
Limited edition split LP in a run of 350 copies, each sleeve featuring a unique postcard fixed to the front. Two sides of post-Fahey/Rose instrumental guitar, one from Cam Deas, the other from Spoono aka Jack Allett of Towering Breaker.
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Cam Deas
Blind Chance
Blackest Rainbow Recordings BRR-175
LP
£12.99
“Fantastic new LP from Cam Deas, which was issued in a tiny run CDR for his recent euro tour with Jack Allett earlier this year. This is a slightly different release from the previous LP and split LP with Spoono, essentially this is one long improvised acoustic freak-out. Loose frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger shredding plucking. This still retains Cam's signature traditional playing somehow, especially the more intense heavier moments. A solid recording. Limited to 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with photography by Cam and printed labels. Pressed at the superb Record Industry in the Netherlands.” – BRR.
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Cam Deas
Quadtych
Present Time Exercises PTECD-1
CD
£10.99
Self-released CD edition that features Cam’s complete Quadtych, also issued in episodic vinyl form: Deas’s playing here moves from an aggressively aformal attack on dead string harmonics that touches on aspects of Derek Bailey circa Aida and Steffen Basho-Junghans – even a few blunt Guitar Roberts-isms – before dissolving into a fractious Blind Willie zone where he chases down fragments of bottleneck melodies and stabbing single-note thrusts straight down the throat of the void interjected with lush/odd sweeps of strings that are almost Partch-ian in construction. His command of sustained silence and sudden tone violence would situate this major outing somewhere between the aforementioned string-thinkers and the high-wire improvised actions of the Masayoshi Urabe/Chie Mukai axis, making this a major UK guitar statement. Easily Deas’s most ‘out’ and ambitious side to date.
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Cam Deas
Quadtych: Volume Two
Present Time Exercises PTELP-2
LP
£12.99
Second instalment of Cam’s ambitious Quadtych series where he explores the furthest fringes of solo 12-string acoustic guitar improvisations w/all of the rigor of Steffen Basho-Junghans while working diversions into the sound of steel strings that are startling in their physicality and their relationship to the very construction of the guitar. If you dig Aida as much as Jack Orion, you’re in the right place. Privately issued by Cam in a run of 500 copies.
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Cam Deas & Jack Allett
Outgrowing The Wretched Cradle
Blackest Rainbow Recordings BRR-221
LP
£14.99
Edition of 300 copies collaboration LP between avant English Primitive guitarist Cam Deas and Jack Allett of Towering Breaker. Here Deas further expands on the radical guitar deconstruction of Quadtych, playing in a fractured, extended style while falling back on snatches of baroque folk melody while Allett works with live processing. The sound moves from weird allusive shadowplay through heavy feedback drones to explosive, triumphal electronics with vertically ascending sunburst tones illuminating the very insides of the guitar. Pretty great.
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