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Recommended by us on 28th April 2011
...according to our Phil on Thu 28 Apr, 2011.
The cover on this thing is well early Nurse with Wound. I can't even work out what's going on there but there's half an axe, something in a suit and some books. The back of the sleeve features the something in a suit which has half melted. It's appealing to me but only cos I don't understand it and want to. This comprises three hard to find volumes of HPK's output and a bonus of their split cassette with Last. The majority of these were super hard to find. Should you have heard of them before and are wanting to chase up some of their output then now you can as Basses Frequences have lovingly compiled this onto a 2 disc set. Anyway this is dark experimental stuff reminding me of early Coil and Nurse with Wound. It's quite cinematic in it's approach as you feel like you're listening to the soundtrack to some dark strange avant-garde film. Occasionally it gets a bit tonal on your ass (which I struggled with) but the general feel of the album is listenable and varied. It's not for everyone but if you're into experimental compositions with a slight industrial twang about 'em then check this mother out.
The pieces that make up The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) were all created while Hoor-paar-Kraat’s Anthony Mangicapra was living in the town of Eureka, California. Indeed, the town’s name is apt as they represent a “Eurekamoment” for Hoor-paar-Kraat as a musical entity; a figurative spilling of the bath waters as Hoor-paar-Kraat found their sound. The hints of alchemical transcendence that peeped through the cracks of previous releases come brazenly into view throughout Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings). Music dissolves into explorations of texture, acoustic phenomena and the psyche.
Originally issued as three separate volumes in a variety of hard to find formats (A Whisper in the Sow’s Ear, a 3” CD; Graduating from Clocks to Watches C55 and Taxonomy of Divine Organisms, a CDr made to accompany, and sold only at, Mangicapra’s exhibit of paintings, “Above & Below”), The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) collects the three original volumes. In addition to the original releases,The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) also includes Hoor-paar-Kraat’s side of their split cassette with Last and a previously unreleased recording from the same sessions. Spanning styles and moods like some kind of emotional suspension bridge, Hoor-paar-Kraat’s music finds itself traveling the same surreal by-ways as Nurse With Wound, irr. app. (ext.), The Hafler Trio and Coil’s more ritualistic output.
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