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...according to our Phil on Thu 21 Oct, 2010.
This is some chap from Starving Weirdo's or to be more precise his name is Brian Pyle. I like the sleeve to this one. Looks like the kind of thing you'd see on Finders Keepers I reckon. Very Italian horror film and kidna eerie. I'm enjoying this one and it's only been on for a few minutes. Unsurprisingly it's cinematic sounding and the cover is a bit of a give away as it does have that 70's Italian synth thing going on. The air is filled with dark weird psychedelic synth vibes and I'm pretty sure someone is going to come up from behind and stab me up big style. Then a load of fake blood is gonna poor out of my back and I'm gonna die really unconvincingly. All the tracks on each side merge into one so I don't know which is which but there's a track on side 1 which reminds me a wee bit of early Foetus. Kinda noisy sounding. There's loads of cool percussion clattering away in the background behind the synthy business. Yeah I'm enjoying this one.
BRIAN PYLE is well-known for his enterprising shamanism as one half of Nor Cal improv gurus STARVING WEIRDOS but when off-roading in his ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE buggy he seems to stumble onto even weirder psychogenic artifacts. Psychical is Pyle s freshest full-length and easily his most drugged and dense. Thick, humid banks of synth-fog descend over looped cult hand-drum patterns, strangely panned waves of brainwash tones, and snippets of third world voices mumbling about blood and marijuana. As the name half-jokingly implies, EE is 100% Pyle s creation intrument-wise, although his wife PHOENIX does intone some possessed doom poetry over the crushing war drums of Forever Eyes and TOM CARTER (of CHARALAMBIDES) cameos with some searing white light guitar shrapnel on the creep-out raga of Real Things. All the pieces dissolve into one another, giving Psychical a dark-trip soundtrack mood, an upriver lost soul convoy into hostile off-radar territories, a thousand spectral voices misting down like blackening monsoon clouds. A total haunter, and an LP we ve been spinning many midnights around NNF HQ. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with occult VHS artwork by MANDA BETH BROWN. NNF. Edition of 470.
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