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LINER NOTES: RHYS CHATHAM, “A CRIMSON GRAIL FOR FOUR HUNDRED ELECTRIC GUITARS

  A nose for Gog the spool unwinds Magog you go fast to Rhys and Shanghai night clumps about. No reference stalks the air tonight, the static pull of endless and-so-forth awash with defectionwith each step walking on water. Pool for a while cancel and tear up (rhyme with ear, rhyme with air) there where world […]

LINER NOTES: PERE UBU, “30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO

Great reggae’d punk shiv of a riff, stab and scratch. Discord arpeggio strings nailed dirty uncoiling into super-compressed worm of a counterpoint-riff. Like that. Bass lags a beat. The low-grade grating of an ambient theramin hum building up underneath, onomatotechnopoetic big-string-rib-pick-drags thru vacuum tubes & charcoal gray paperboard cones (twin Wright R‑2600 radials on a B‑25 Mitchell). It’s a claustrophobic space, collapsing […]