Climax Golden Twins
Eerie Fragrance

A Norman Records recommendation (25th June 2009)

Cover art for Eerie Fragrance by Climax Golden Twins Description: Ltd LP on Etude Records
Format: LP (vinyl)
Genre(s): Experimental / Abstract
Label: Etude
Price:
£15.49
Availability: Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5Rating: 5
...according to our on 25 June 2009.

'Eerie Fragrance' is a Etude re-issue of Climax Golden Twins official first long player originally available on tape way back in 1995. For those of you not familiar with the group Climax Golden Twins specialize in ambient/dreamy/art installation/field recording type stuff and they do it better than most, yo! 'Eerie Fragrance' a.k.a Eyeless Fabrication or Exclude Frank or Eat Fuck is classic collection of manipulated found sounds, strange tape warpings, percussive sounds, odd feedback and wonky looped-up samples all saturated in reverb and tape noise. It's a totally amazing collage of noises that does it's best to entertain and amuse as opposed to oppress, if you know what I'm saying. This is experimental noise with a sense of fun and adventure. For those of you who enjoy the works of fellow San Francisco freaksters Sun City Girls and the like. Amazing! Oh yeah, this re-issued vinyl includes three bonus tracks and a fucked up poster featuring two strange Siamese cats. YO!!

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What their label says...

A lovely vinyl reissue on Etude Records of a long obscure Climax Golden Twins gem. Originally issued in 1995, on cassette, Eerie Fragrance or Eyeless Fabrication or Exclude Frank or Eat Fuck or etc (forever) was Climax Golden Twins second official issue after a self-released double seven inch gatefold record. Cassettes--the cockroach of the industry--were a necessity at the poorer end of the music spectrum prior to CDRs and file sharing…the good old days…EF was a collage of noise, found sounds, punk rock disasters, Chinese climaxes, broken records, and tape failures mastered directly to cassette on a reverberant wooden floor in an old building in Seattle, Washington. It seemed an inauspicious start and little presaged the ambient/dreamy/art installation/field recording/Anomalous Records darlings CGT were to become with releases such as Lovely, Dream Cut Short in the Mysterious Clouds, Locations, etc. However, secret free hillbilly noise epilepsy has always lurked under the button up shirts, white wine sipping and gallery-opening snack-munching. The noise informs the dreams which informs the ambiance which informs the chaos and so back to the beginning and vice-versa. Etude Records discovered CGT through their work on the horror film Session Nine and have been wanting to release something ever since.