Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson

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5...according to our Brett on Thu 22 Apr, 2010.

Now this is more like it! The legend goes that these two dudes saw The Stooges then rushed back to one of their kitchens to jam out this caveman drone-rock behemoth. Flicking through the fat booklet which accompanies this release it seems that that's both an embellishment and an oversimplification but it sounds cool, so fuck it - that's the line we should stick in the history books. What you have here is two guys blasting out a noisy guitar 'n' drums improv set full of jazzy experimentation and all-out neanderthal grooves which could quite easily have been recorded last week, such is the timeless quality of this particular template and perfection with which it fits into the psych-tinged noise-rock underground of our most modern of times.. Anyone into experimental rock from The Velvets to Keiji Haino to Heavy Winged ought to get on the case!

This is the 25th year anniversary reissue of a noteworthy historical and musical document. Daily Dance was recorded in rural Fayette County, Ohio in 1972, yet its clangorous drones sound as if they could have been recorded yesterday (or, perhaps, a few hours ago). Daily Dance was originally released as an LP in 1973 on the New Frontiers label...and has been out of print for about fifteen years.

Five years later Doug (largely on the strength of this recording) would become a “key” member of recondite NYC noise-improv ensemble Sick Dick and the Volkswagens, along with Donald Miller (Borbetomagus and Lhasa Cement Plant), Mark Abbott (see John Zorn's School) and Brian Doherty (Borbeto and Lhasa).

After Sick Dick’s demise (1983), Doug returned to Ohio. To this day, Snyder and Thompson perform and record together on a regular basis.

All in all, here is a disc that looks back toward The Velvet Underground, the Stooges and Elvin Jones, as it looks forward to Ascension, Keiji Haino and William Hooker (and any number of other free-noising, free-rocking manifestations)……and it was recorded over 25 years ago!

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