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Trash Music Spitacular United Fairy Moons CD-R £7.99 CD-R document of the various usurping art strategies applied by Mr Ryan Cockburn during extensive investigations of strategies implied by various modernist sound-art projects like Fluxus, LAFMS, Revue Ou, Chocolate Monk et al. Some of the recordings here come from various happenings, exhibitions and actions that took place earlier this year involving instant graphic scores, choirs of bell-ringers, degraded sound sculpture and punk art prank. Cockburn is a member of NZ trash/zone unit Eye and also appeared contributed a beautiful side of glued together vinyl manipulations on a UFM 10” lathe sometime last year, but Spit gathers a concisely edited clutch of various previously-undocumented moves, including large-scale bottle orchestras, destroyed/prepared piano w/painted scores that orbits the same kind of demolished universe as Philip Corner, wowing glass cymbal work, huge horns of zonk, furniture music and harsh white noise. Fans of New Blockaders, early Nurse With Wound, Jac Berrocal, Joe Jones and Prick Decay should dig the fuck in. Comes in a nice screened folder with a b&w booklet. |
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Seven Layer Ape United Fairy Moons 013 CD £10.99 Seven Layer Ape is a seven track, three-pronged attack from New Zealand based multi instrumentalists Donald McPherson (guitar, flute, percussion), Jim Currin (cello, violin) and Tim Cornelius (violin, drums, flute, junk). All the music here was improvised straight to cassette at various venues in Dunedin during the bands short life span between 2002-04, and there are some real lively death rattle stomps. McPherson’s guitar really propels the opening number- ‘Dust Tea’- spinning dislocated blues runs that are reminiscent of Loren Mazzacane Connors circa Dagget Years. But the most effective tracks seem to hang around the blistering dual string action of Currin (United Fairy Moons boss) and Cornelius (Sandoz Lab Technicians), who rabidly scrawl interlocking lines from the necks of their fiddles. This really kicks off on track four, “Otaru Vision”, as the sound hovers over eight minutes, twitching with abrupt reel phrases and echoed voices that escalate into synergic lock-wristed string jitter. Featuring great naïve hieroglyphic cover drawings by James Robinson; like Hieronymous Bosch inspired cave paintings found deep in down town Dunedin. Recommended. – Alex. |
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Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain United Fairy Moons CD-R £6.99 Ray Off is the solo guise of James Currin, who also runs the United Fairy Moons label, a small New Zealand imprint that looks to be one of the most consistently interesting purveyors of avant-thought this side of Corpus Hermeticum. Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain is a fabulously eerie trip, combining evocative hillbilly guitar shapes (reminiscent of Six Organs Of Admittance at points), a Morricone-esque feel for spatial dynamics, some disconcertingly abstract electronics and a dimensionally fucked use of field recordings. The whole thing unfolds with a sense of narrative purpose that makes a lot of intuitive structural sense even as it swerves into wildly diverting passages of digital disruption and heavy drone: “Ghost wolf traverses inlet, plain, city and sky, battling altitude sickness and dreaming a crystal cloud beneath his limping, sticky pins.” Limited in a beautiful looking screened hard card gatefold sleeve. Recommended. |
