Etienne-based Somaticae, aka Amédée De Murcia, hits new heights. Even by their standards though, Kleis, from St. Uniting with the ensemble to hit incredible bursts of free-rock intensity without losing control of mood or space for an instant.Īlongside their fellow Prague residents Genot Centre, the catalogue of (mostly) tape label Gin & Platonic is a reminder some of the most ambitious electronic music is to be found on cassette. The role of bandleader reiterates rather than dilutes McEvoy’s uniquely evocative guitar playing. The finale is a burning surge of electronics and frantic picking which seems to spiral endlessly upwards. The first is a free-wheeling, folk meets drone rock jam which hits some truly ecstatic interplay between violin and guitar.
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McEvoy switches to electric for the other two tracks. The opener and title track sees McEvoy’s acoustic guitar act as port in the viola’s raging storm, flicking out jovial plucks and strums, before the two resolve the tension to unite in a ragged swagger.
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New tape Under & Cracked sees McEvoy join up with a full band, featuring George Brennan on electronics, David Lacey on drums, Sean Maynard Smith on upright bass and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh on viola to create something more rocking but just as vivid. The six string laments on Aonghus McEvoy's Responses, released last year on Fort Evil Fruit, were chilling in their sparsity, coming across like shudders in the night. (Astral Spirits) Under & Cracked by Aonghus McEvoy
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Otomoni excels at conjuring exactly that in the multicoloured world he’s assembled here. I’ve always felt footwork hits me hardest when I stop noticing how pacy it is, and then it starts to feel both fast and slow at the simultaneously, ss though it’s morphed into pure kinetic energy to dislodge your mind and body from this earthly plane. Everything from flutes to glassy percussion and voices are sliced, diced and reassembled at the micro level to create rhythms that hit on the macro which is to say, this is both head and body music. His music treats beats as prisms to bend sound through. They absolutely hit that nail on its head with Super U, the new album from Tokyo-based producer Otomoni. Where the latter focuses heavily on footwork, the former searches for “the most interesting and innovative music at 160 bpm”. Guides is a parallel label to Pawel "Paide" Dunajko’s Outlines. A collection like this helps build their ongoing story. Their practice is an open-ended process as much as it’s enclosed by individual albums. In the zine Cain likens Model Home to a jazz band and one way that resonates is that the split between ‘official’ albums and outtakes/other stuff is as meaningless with Model Home as it is with Sun Ra. Like the album, this tape captures a further snapshot of the endless mutation that makes their gigs so precarious, and so exciting. Not so much balancing on a tight rope as gleefully falling off it in pursuit of ever greater sonic eccentricity.
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Seeing them in the flesh brought home that they thrive on instinctive response to the moment. Model Home’s spewed, mulched and battered experimental hip hop is well suited to this treatment. It also comes with a zine which includes interviews with the band, pictures and musings from friends and acquaintances. Released by London’s Disciples label, it collects tracks recorded around the same time as the LP, including an extra collaboration with Japanese artist Phew. An accompaniment to the duo’s (Pat Cain on production, MC NappyNappa on vocals) Saturn In The Basement LP, it’s perhaps better described as advancing the Model Home expanded universe. I picked up Model Home’s A Saturn Companion at their brilliant residency at Café Oto in June. They can also provide a means for artists to create work outside the flow of the typical album cycle. Fortunately, all the releases this month are up to the challenge.īut, regular readers of this column will know that tapes aren’t at their best when they’re being used as another vehicle for sounds already available on every other physical format. If you’re an artist releasing sounds on tape and those sounds aren’t saving kids in a mid-West US town in the 80s from violent death, or deemed worthy to single-handedly deliver a musical eulogy to one of the most popular soap operas of all time, you really need to think about what the hell you’ve been doing. Needless to say, the stakes of the cassette scene have been raised in the last bi-month. But then, just as real as the threat of getting sucked into the revivalist Upside Down, is the news that Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan will be reissuing ‘Especially For You’ on vinyl and cassette to commemorate the end of Neighbours after more than 30 years.