Spoils And Relics - Alabastor Silk

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 07 May, 2009.

There's something immensely satisfying about playing tapes these days. Maybe it's an age thing or more probably rebelling against modern technology but whacking a tape on these days gives me immense pleasure. I'm amazed at how good they sound still... a total cock to get to a certain track or point in an album mind you but they're fun things... Another Blackest Rainbow-er this week is a tape (see.. my intros have a point) by Spoils And Relics called Alabaster Silk. The album focuses on a reinvention of found artifacts, applied as tools to further explorations of prehistoric futures present (cut and pasted from the press release). So couldn't be bothered to re word it... would have taken me hours.... it's a weird improvised hum broken up by electronics and found sounds. It's a hard one to describe... There is something primordial and boggish about it. In fact I feel like I'm in some sort of humid death swamp surrounded by massive flies and slow moving prehistoric creatures. It's really quite an interesting one if you stick with it!!

Spoils and Relics 'Alabastor Silk' is a threes up (Kieron Piercy, Gary Myles and Johnny Scarr [occasional Fossil member]) improvisation on found objects, tapes and electronics - recorded in in a red lit Leeds basement, and then pieced together in Mantile studio, Nottingham. This release focuses on a reinvention of found artifacts, applied as tools to further explorations of prehistoric futures present. Pro dubbed cassettes. Limited to 60 copies.
'Alabaster silt - The reinvention of found artifacts are pieced together to form tools which enable a dig to the earth's inner crust to
further explorations into prehistoric future. below the cavernous murk dwell bubbling furuncle
streams in which manged carniverous matter bathe. Above the swelling, many mechanical wings gather creaking as they swoop in on the feeding, picking off the sores and gliding into the fog leaving only lose screws behind.. evidence is gathered and filtered through the silt parts of the beak are recovered strange resin is collected from the wreckage..'

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