Red Horse - Red Horse

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4...according to our Brett on Fri 27 Mar, 2009.

I'm just reading the attractive information sheet that comes with this Red Horse LP and it sounds fucking nuts. These two geezers, yeah, Eli Keszler and Steve Pyne, they make loads of racket with mental home made instruments and bits of shit they've got lying around. If anyone knows what a crotale is and why you might want to bow it please write in to the usual address. This is quite challenging stuff, made up of scrapes, whirs and hums but there's an interestingly 'old' feel to the tones they generate, in some ways it reminds me of some of the really out there avant-garde experiments of the 60s. Not one to listen to when you feel a headache coming on but their uncompromising stance is highly admirable and this self-titled LP is of a very obviously high quality.. I just wish I had a more time to do it proper justice, there's a hell of a lot going on in there. It's amazingly packaged too, Rel Records has pulled out all the stops for this edition of 300.

Red Horse is the self-titled debut LP by the Providence/Boston based duo of Eli Keszler and Steve Pyne. Across two sides Red Horse creates a unique sound combining Pyne’s massive hand-constructed string instruments, motor-automated resonances, homespun multi-layered Leslies, speaker arrays and sculptural electronics with Keszler’s swarming percussion, bowed crotales, metal and strings, guitar and microphones. The music moves fluidly between powerful grinding metallic clatter, psycho-acoustic string sustain, piercing bowed crotale tones and aggressive free drum and guitar blasts. Red Horse seamlessly slips between areas with a dynamic and formal sense all their own.

Recorded and produced over the course of 2 years, this LP comes in a limited edition of 300 copper plate pressed 200 gram virgin vinyl copies. Packaged in a unique thick silk-screened card stock cover with a hand-numbered vellum wraparound. The package also includes a silk screened poster and three screen printed cards depicting Steve Pyne’s invented instruments (string barrel, click box and speaker array). This edition is the culmination of many years of work together and represents the first in a series of Red Horse releases.

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