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More loveliness courtesy of Blackest Rainbow corp...this week it's a limited (that's 70 copies folks) CD-R release from a newly formed three piece instrumental, improv group consisting of Robert Horton, Lisa Cameron and Douglas Ferguson. Three compositions are collected here with the first ('Parakeets Of Doom') being the most bizarre and confrontational of the lot mixing metallic, insistent percussion with loose slide guitar to create an immersive blues jam with a sonic twist. I guess you'd call it psyche blues but that would be dismissing the almost Paganist approach to the material. 'The transmission is fucked' muses on fucked up metal infused chamber music that litererally bores into the brain cells (light relief is briefly provided by an incoming mobile phone signal....this shouldn't be funny, but it is)...and the final piece is a mind expanding 33 minute of music box versus drone mania...who will win? DRONE of course. This is meditative, free improvisation with it's an eyes and ears firmly set on an unknown universe of new, unheard sounds. Great stuff.First release from the trio of Robert Horton, Lisa Cameron and Douglas Ferguson. 'Parakeets Of Doom' opens for the disc and musically its as far out and weird as its title, churning twangs, background blues jams and an underlying percussive bassy rumble. 'This Transmission Is Fucked' again equally has a vibe that its title clearly sums up, here the trio melt into one metallic rust almost 18 minute disaster... certain moments sound like thick metal panels are literally being sliced in two. The release finishes with the epic 33 minute 'Somewhere In Oakland (Horizontal Mix--', opens with a freakish blend of music box and wavering underlying dark fuzz and drone, the drone gets bassier throughout with string wig-outs and more gentle strumming laid over at various moments. A great release of odd improvisation and multi-instrumental blurts from start to finish. Hand stamped CDRs in full colour covers, with insert, limited to 70 copies.
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