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...according to our Brian on Thu 14 Oct, 2010.
I wonder what would happen if C Spencer Yeh joined Does it Offend You, Yeah. Would it result in a big resounding NO? Or would it be a panting dog-esque yehYEAH!!!! My mind resembles a flattened field of sleepy mudge today, so please do excuse me. I've left this particular avant-drone record on at a reasonable volume so Business Lady can fully relish the thoroughly improvisational violin "playing" metered out by the aforementioned Mr. Yeh! With the sole accompaniment being the long wavering tonal thrum of a Harmonium - almost resembling a stuck set of bagpipes - this sometimes comes across a little like a weird & loose Scottish folk freak-out and is actually RELAXING me, despite the tempestuous outside-the-box style violin scrawlings. That bloody crazed stringed demon gets more & more deranged on side two, sitting oddly comfortably with its much more peaceable cousin - manipulated more-than-adequately by Mr Wesseltoft. Cool....
Yeh and Wesseltoft met in Oslo, Norway, in the cold winter of 2008. Within the combination between the highly dynamic peaks of Spencer’s violin and the warm, eternal continuum produced by Jon’s harmonium, they found the key to deliver a flux of epic, organic drones that sound like nothing they have recorded before. Two years later (february 2010), they did it again, same room, same set-up, same magic. The best takes from those sessions are on the two sides of this Lp. This is the sound of the Norwegian fjords, so powerful and bright like a ‘northern resonance’, as perfectly defined by its title.
The cover artwork by Lasse Marhaug give the final touch to this gem. Ageless.
Full colour pro-printed cover, edition of 300 copies.
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