Forest Creature / Ryan Garbes and Gerre Hancock

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4...according to our Ant on Fri 14 Mar, 2008.

OOOOOooooooohhhhhh this here Forest Creature / Ryan Garbes and Gerre Hancock split CD on Blackest Rainbow sounds like a right old racket. The Forest Creature track sounds like Keiji Haino at his most fierce and shredding tearing up the air with scorching vibrations of black guitar wail and feedback and then mutates into the kind of stuff Prurient plays to his mum when she comes round for Sunday lunch. The Ryan Garbes and Gerre Hancock track is like a church organ possessed by Beezlebub and then wonders into dreamy soundscapes through to noise cacophany. So yeah pretty damn cool... Also in are two smart looking tapes on Blackest Rainbow by Terrestrial and Barn Owl.

Forest Creature are an insane duo that emerged out of the brief Blackout Band sessions. Duo of Ben (former BR store employee) and Richard. Total nutso weirdo noise shit, dumb electronics and self taught drums clatters... thrown in some scrapes, fights and pure dense noise with the odd barely recognizable vocal and you got Forest Creature... one flowing blurted nightmare. Ryan Garbes is the drummer from Iowa's Raccoo-oo-oon, and on this release he is joined by organist Gerre Hancock. Inititially the opening to this sounds like your in the big top surrouned by some chirpy clowns, elephants hand standing on balls, and dudes in big hats taming tigers... But then the psychedelia hits in, and man is it a trip! Far out smoky drones with elephants getting high - Dumbo style. Clowns becoming some kinda Nosferatu blood suckers - Tom Cruise Interview with a Vampire style. Grooving stoned lions dancing reeaaaallll slow, kicking the tamers asses whilst giggling away. one hell of a far out experience. Cassette = 70 copies. Will also be available on cdr, but i'll only have 20 copies, so no wholesale on that this time round.

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