Cotton Museum - No Face in the Bog

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4...according to our Phil on Wed 28 May, 2008.

This week we have not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 new releases on Qbico. Like buses they travel in packs. Not sure if I'm gonna review all of them but here's the 1st one by Cotton Museum called 'No Face In The Bog'. This reminds me of the time when my wife flushed young Ant's head down the lavvy once when we were out boozing and that. Ah... the sweet sweet effects of booze. By the way British government... don't blame supermarkets for selling cheap booze for causing the drinking problems we've got over here... maybe it's the huge fucked up state the UK is in and the dropping standards of peoples lives that are making people drink themselves to ruin. So Cotton Museum. There was a face in he bog and it belonged to our Ant. Anyhoo the theme of the new Qbico's is Chris Pottinger who (I think) is some American artist who likes a bit of squealing noise by all accounts. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway this is 2 sides of squawking evil noises by terrified space parrots and marauding face raping ants. Not a comfortable record at all but one with a load of weird sounds like what I've not heard before like. White vinyl covered in he most far out there electronica I've heard in ages. Imagine Autechre crossed with Wolf Eyes and dangerously limited I'm sure....

No face in the bog (QBICO 78) cow's milk vinyl, artworks and music by Chris Pottinger, with insert

side A originally released as a ltd ed CD-R art set in 100 copies on Tasty Soil, Creature
B1 track is unreleased, rec. in 2007
B2 originally released in 2006 on Fag Tapes as a side of a tour cassette with Sick Llama
B3 was played as a loop for 8 months straight on a pirate radio station that broadcasted out of the Cloud House on 107.9 fm

"Far out electronic music for the third millenium ! the track on side A is side long and totally insane (don't know but i hear echoes of Kawabata's solo on qbico #11, could be a new step/continuation ?!), my amplifier's pointers never went so schizo-frenic ! side B start with a short electronic meditation thinned out by pure acid... the middle piece is long and it's grow on you, deeper and deeper... this futuristic rocket ends with a mesmerizing short track that was broadcasted as a loop on a pirate radio station for 8 consecutive months ! all in tune: the cover, the vinyl color, the music AND the creatures ! an exhibition (curated by Thurston Moore) of Chris Pottinger's fine artworks at been recently displayed at the latest No Fun Fest."

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