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...according to our Clinton on Fri 21 Jan, 2011.
However good this could be, there'll be no comparison the stop- start animation Phil has just shown me. 40 today and finally he unleashes his inner creative genius - he did this himself you know:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-P7u4-R68M
Anyway back to the 'music' - we are all waiting with baited breath now that we've heard the guy tuning up for 10 minutes whether he will actually get round to playing a chord. It doesn't seem so. Instead we get solo guitar improvisations that slowly build and mutate to spectacularly atonal rhythmic strumming that comes very early in what I'm told is a 70 minute piece. Excitement over it goes back to plucking. Whether this is wonderfully improvised sonic exploration or just plucking about depends on your viewpoint I suppose. Fans of Derek Bailey, experimental ends of Jack Rose or John Fahey may well get in a tizzy about this but for us its just a little too abstract to keep the attention over two sides of vinyl.
Quadtych Volume One presents Parts One and Two of Cam Deasʼ colossal Quadtych for
12 string guitar, a four part piece spanning over 70 minutes in total. Recorded in one
evening at Londonʼs Roundhouse in December 2010 by Jack Allett, though over a year
and a half since its initial sketches, it is his first composed work for 12 string guitar since
the 2009 split tour LP with Spoono/Jack Allett on Blackest Rainbow. The first two parts
exhibited on this LP display great evolution from Deas as he unifies the sonic exploration
of his acoustic 12 string guitar through a legion of extended techniques, with a developed
and structured formulation combined with sections of partly and freely improvised playing,
undoubtedly establishing Quadtych as his most compelling and personal work to date. The
record comes pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl and packaged in deluxe pro-printed
sleeves with fantastic artwork by Jake Blanchard in an edition of 500 copies.
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Norman Records,
Unit 20, Croydon House,
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Email: phil@normanrecords.com
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