Jennifer Gentle - Concentric

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 01 Apr, 2010.

I don't know much about Jennifer Gentle but when Phil put this on earlier he mumbled something about Syd Barrett which sounds completely wrong based on this CD of spacey bleeps 'n' drones which approaches dark ambient or industrial territories at times. Everyone else seemed confused too, they were all going "This in't me dad's Jennifer Gentle" and stuff like that. I can't really comment but this is pretty decent weirdo jam fare which you might want to check out and I like the bits which sound like indigestive space cruisers.

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Better known as purveyors of quirky, semi-sleazy avant pop gems on their Sub Pop albums, Jennifer Gentle and their leader Marco Fasolo have also issued through the years a series of weirder releases (mostly through Italian label A Silent Place) running the gamut from out-there psychedelic rock to “crunching and hefty slab of tripped out musique concrète worthy of Joji Yuasa, Kunihara Akayima or one of their equivalent early ‘60s greats”, as Julian Cope eloquently put it reviewing JG’s Sacramento Session/ 5 of 3 lp. Concentric is the last one and also their bleakest, most uncompromising and probably best “experimental” album to date. This time Fasolo took his live band in his own Ectoplasmic Studio, recorded them and then spent hours painstakingly editing the material, adding here and there the odd effect and generally directing what sounds like a nightmarish Surrealist movie perversely shot in lush Cinemascope - or a hellish version of Lumpy Gravy as played by a freaked-out jazz combo.

Tracking list:

1 key
2 land
3 neon
4 melt
5 hunt
6 scar
7 halos
8 yell

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