microphones in the trees: moses jiggs
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Monday, October 30, 2006

the bummer road

"Gorgeous-looking tour-only COM from the Bummer Road trio line-up (mv & ee and Moses Jiggs with occasional input from Sparrow Wildchild on flute). Atmosphere is somewhere between an unknown Sea Ensemble jam with Sonny Sharrock and Byard Lancaster and a Go Hirano disc featuring Jutok Kaneko and Sandy Bull covering devotional German jugband with nothing but a blat of electricity, a set hard-twonking strings, hand-smelted metal percussion and a pair of lungs full of thick purple smoke. One of the group's furthest circumnavigations of known blues form to date, this comes in a hand painted/lettered hard card gatefold sleeve complete with booklet of prose pomes and art snap." Volcanic Tongue
no es fácil decidirse por un único disco de los muchos que publican MV/EE, núcleo de the Tower Recordings, con o sin The Bummer Road. una buena opción sería 'Play Ellas McDaniels Who Do You Love' de la serie Three Lobed, por ser sencillamente genial su versión de Bo Didley. sin embargo prefiero 'Rural Dimensions' porque es el mensaje interespacial mejor descodificado desde 'Folkscene' y también porque es aquí donde confluye todo ese inabarcable mundo de Matt Valentine y Erika Elder: oriente y occidente, ragas & blues, hipnosis, ofrendas a los dioses del kraut, drones, reverberaciones, harmónicas, flautas, jams flotando en el espacio..en 'Moon mermaids' impresiona el eco psicodélico y casi fantasmal de la voz de Erika, como si viniera desde el más allá, oculto entre distorsiones de guitarra y percusiones enlatadas. cerrando los ojos es fácil imaginársela vagando entre las paredes de algún viejo monasterio, vestida con una sotana oscura, tambura en mano, invocando a las fuerzas cósmicas...
file under: ladies & gentlemen, we are floating in rural space
para hacerse una muy pequeña idea, dos muestras de Mother of Thousands
Cold Rain (mp3)

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

valentine/elder/neilson/jiggs

hay magia en la fórmula creada por matt valentine y erika elder, tienen poderes ocultos y una lista interminable de discos y colaboraciones. cinco mandalas de ragas cósmicos y mantras infinitos, cinco seres con cabeza de seta armados de cuencos e instrumentos fantásticos: matt valentine, erika elder, alex neilson (Davenport, Directing hand, Taurpis Tula, Jandek) . momento cumbre: goose grease grass!!
"An eye opener: some of the most powerful, deep and cosmic ragas ever recorded! Mine ears have heard the glory in full spectra sound."
"Ultra-heavy session from MV and EE with Moses Jiggs on rags of lung and Mr Alex Neilson (Directing Hand/Taurpis Tula/Jandek) on percussion and shortwave. A series of iron-clad raga peaks that sound exactly like you would’ve imagined an Elektra ’66 LP featuring Sonny Sharrock and Byard Lancaster playing the song-pomes of Pandit Pran Nath with phantom accompaniment from Bruce Langhorn, Peter Walker and Pat Kilroy would’ve. Neilson has a way of subtly serrating linear time that makes it feel like it’s sprouting teeth and Valentine’s massively charged navigation of non-canonical blues scales fits right between its jaws. One of the best sides from all involved and a classic slice of kif-obscured ecstasy-sound to boot. Comes pressed on a beautiful colour mandala-style picture disc, with B-side text from MV. Highly recommended." Volcanic Tongue