TIP OF THE TONGUE 06 DECEMBER 2009
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
Blew In The Face
Chironex Records 03
LP
OUT OF STOCK!
Much-anticipated debut full-length vinyl from the best band in the UK. The duo of Pascal Nichols (drums/vocal sounds) and Kelly Jones (flute/electronics) play deep, cultic, psychedelic improvisations that owe as much to Byard Lancaster, Roland Kirk and Don Cherry as they do to Taj Mahal Travellers and Sabu Orimo. Blew In The Face comes in a limited run of only 300 copies and features a side of home recordings and a live performance from Den Haag in 2008 on the flip. The studio recordings have a high, metallic feel, with Pascal’s distorted vocals generating cloud of chatter while Kelly floats past with puffs of reverb-illuminated flute, conjuring odd, ancient-sounding melodies. Pascal plays a little harder than he has on the past few CD-R releases, with the kind of booming floor tom that brings to mind Denis Charles at his most detonating. As the duo drift further out the atmosphere becomes even more alien and confused, with Pascal droning like The Gyuoto Monks while Kelly dots the background with constellations of breath. The live recording has a more primitive-Industrial feel, with an omnivorous vocal-tone drone threaded through Pascal’s hugely reverberant kit and Kelly’s haunting flute, both colliding in beams of pure feedback and making for one of their most sustained and heaviest outings to date. Part Wild Horses have punched a massive hole in psychedelic/free jazz aesthetics, one that allows whole new musical futures to come blazing through. And this is their most perfectly realised statement to date. Highly recommended.
