Lied Music vs Boy-Band Tax Returns LP
Ultra Eczema UE 29"Lied music is the strange musique concrète improv project of the US neurotic sound artist John W Fail and the Glasgow based film maker Luke Fowler. They had a tape on Trevor Tremaine's Rampart label, but I actually found out about them through the great 4x tape box that Spencer Yeh did on his Drone Disco imprint, I was immediately blown away by the beauty of this electroacoustic clean noise styled turbulence. This LP is a colab with Boy-Band Tax Returns from Glasgow, who did a great LP as Vernon And Burns on Felix Kubins Gagarin records… This music is fucking beautiful, strangest combination of musique concrète and sampled field recordings. Crude use of the Indian string instrument esraj and violin, a lot of tascam tape machine cuttings, keyboards, home built instruments, samples etc…very weird rhythmic stuff (spazz dancing is possible, straight dancing will be hard…), brutal drunk English hooligans, ambiental soundscapes, heavy frequencies… As with a lot of Ultra Eczema releases I feel this music tastes very much like early Nurse With Wound, The New Blockaders and other collage related sound art. The cover design is a drawing of a puking linx and a drawing of a dog on a shaved pukish body form by Dennis Tyfus."
Dennis Tyfus, Ultra Eczema.
Link:
http://www.ultraeczema.com/
MP3:
'Musth' (excerpt from the 2nd as yet unreleased album)