Chora - The Wax Heel

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 28 Jan, 2011.

Rob Lye, Ben Morris, Karl Brummer and Ben Nash return to your home speakers with eight mind-benders recorded in Camberwell 2010. These guys are presumably playing all the time while amassing a tidy little catalogue on labels like Blackest Rainbow, Chironex, Singing Knives, Ultramarine and now (I think) their second for Zero Jardins following a CDr back in 2007. Expect all sorts of wailing from the very soulful to painful; while the set is more stripped back, minimal refined and spacious than I'm used to hearing from these guys. I particularly like the clattering kitchen sink/ falling down the stairs percussion and the wind instruments really do zone out at various points. The first proper CD from these improv darlings in an edition of 200 in digi-pak with sweet cover painting from Lindsay Mapes.

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"After a slew of CDR and vinyl releases The Wax Heel is Chora's first proper CD album. Recorded in Camberwell, South London, in the same flurry of activity that birthed 'Ruined Parabola' & the 'Quivers/Chora' split, The Wax Heel again documents jams from the Morris/Lye/Nash/Brummer line-up. Aesthetically, the album sees the band at their sparsest and most minimally refined to date. Largely forgoing the orgiastic brightness of 'Ruined Parabola', The Wax Heel is a difficult sibling to the Chironex release. Spatial, at moments deranged but with a sublimely glacial ambience bound by their communal movement."

Limited edition of 200 digipack CD's with great cover painting from Lindsay Mapes.

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