Fossils - Global Seance

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 12 Feb, 2010.

Gotta love the weird and wonderful world of Fossils.. Am currently enjoying their deliciously strange improvised electro-acoustic set that is 'Global Seance'. The guitar sounds super cool, like all crunched out and crinkly. The muted sax is kept at a real nice level and doesn't take over the mix too much and there's lots of weird electronics going off. The whole thing is basically quite deranged and very unique sounding. It gets so alien sounding at some points that I'm compelled to laugh. Really great oddball sounds that at various points remind me of an accelerated Tom & Jerry cartoon on premium strength acid. Again this is on the For Noise's Sake label which I never heard of before but it really has my attention now. Ltd hand numbered CDr of 50 copies.

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Since 2004 the prolific Fossils have created their own universe of sound along more than 100 CDRs, cassettes and vinyls, masterfully mixing noise, "musique concrete" and improvisation. "Global Seance" is less concrete and electronic music than previous recordings. David Payne and Steve Smith (along with Rob Michalchuk in some subjects) dive for 41 minutes in "lower-case" electro-acoustic improvisation, with crunchy guitars and electronics, drowning saxes, all muddy in a not so lo-fi sound as previous recordings but equally warm that allows to listen the fascinating parts of the whole.
Limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies, color printing on the CDR and on laminated folded cardboard covers.

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