microphones in the trees: egyptian sports network
Showing posts with label egyptian sports network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egyptian sports network. Show all posts

Monday, April 28, 2014

black joker


"recorded around during the the watch out! and shee-ro gateway sessions, comprised of mirage colored beats and star encrusted keyboard solos. "in every moments distance there can be, from a veranda, the captured outer galaxy's spherical alignment, a mirage set alight by a shifting hold of the sun's peering, that skirts across a clouded pattern, aboce prepared plateau to parallel the planet triamas' terrain with that of our timeline's mirage. an event entertaining a past relationship between two distant shere's evolution: a hallucination's forecast of an outer beings' arrival...never released 35 minute cassette." pacific city sound visions

  
"my snakes figure friend Spencer Clark is the Black Joker this time. Black Joker make pretty crop circles inside your head and disappears in the distant of moaning teepee chief outside the purple mayan temple under the glowing skies of pacific atmosphere bla bla wang chung mey kang toy ming sui!!!" sunflower chakra milk

¡fiesta! otra ración de música saltarina, delirante, de cascadas de percusión y energía tropical. de mundos imaginarios,  rituales, ocultismo, alucinaciones, espirales, espejismos, civilizaciones inventadas, de seres de otros planetas colonizando el nuestro, lsd, loros parlanchines, casios, bongos y farfisas. y eso es sólo una pequeña parte de la monopoly-fórmula milenaria de la que estoy tan enamorada. todo un mundo (cada portada es un tesoro, esos teclados llenos de vida imitando voces de niños de alguna tribu extinguida, emitiendo sonidos que sólo podrían salir de lieven moana cuando se transforma en duncan cameron) demasiado amplio, extraño, peculiar para abarcarlo. la experiencia es: escuchar primero 'modern dance' de craig kupka y después 'outer planetary oasis', cuatro canciones como cuatro soles grabadas casi al mismo tiempo que 'watch out' y que nunca, creo, habían visto la luz. además, la historia de 'make mine, macaw' de monopoly child star searches se repite: llevaba mucho tiempo queriendo oirla y sólo puedo decir (o más bien repetir como un loro) que charles berlitz aka spencer clark es uno de los seres más fascinantes e interesantes del planeta, de cualquier planeta, donde quiera que esté o haya estado. dicen que sus directos son una mezcla de 'temple inauguration and 50's ethnic folkways bootleg, and his myriad of recorded artifacts surf from devotional pyramid drone and celestial bamboo ritual to the tropical romance audio novel'...que no sabría traducirlo fielmente pero suena exactamente así, signifique lo que signifique. basta con pinchar este botón. en bucle, una y otra vez. 'essentially a drum-circle of little casios'.

pero lo mejor es que se avecinan muchas cosas emocionantes en pacific city sound visions, un sello que ya se ha ganado el cielo (tal vez, junto a la bill doob/inspired school of astral music, una de las páginas que más veces visito en busca de cualquier noticia, cinta, vinilo, canción o futuras y apetitosas ~windsurfing, skaters que viajan al mismísimo infierno para detener las señales de televisión que nos lavan el cerebro~ bandas sonoras de películas de los ochenta y los noventa...mmm!

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Monday, June 24, 2013

egyptian sports network


"brand new private press LP from the duo of Spencer Clark (Monopoly Child/Skaters) and Matt Mondanile (Ducktails) with a guest appearance from Mark McGuire (Emeralds): this is a stunning record and a high point in both players’ catalogues, approaching the kind of ecstasy sound that would marry the sensual body-gnosis and memory vague stylings of Dan Lopatin’s echo jams with the kind of celestial tone-world poetry of the Sun Ra Arkestra at its most plugged in and wiggy. the jams are massively infectious, with Spencer’s hallucinatory tropicalia phasing into the kind of motorik highs that would reconcile “I Feel Love” with Faust’s “Krautrock” while Mondanile sighs over the top in synthesized vocoder bliss. Indeed, Egyptian Sports Network feel like a technicolour riposte to late-period Throbbing Gristle. still, the mood is celebratory and high energy throughout, with irresistible rhythms piloted by aching/lucid keyboard melodies that are as nostalgic for the future as they are for all the past that’s yet to come. it feels like the triumphal resolution to definitive sides like the Skaters LP on the California box set or like a great yea-saying coda to Ferraro’s Marble Surf, a form of ascendant celebratory trance that borrows sci-fi and magickal imagery with a sound that truly travels the spaceways. plays at 45rpm for maximum body feel. This is the weirdo feel-good record of the year, very highly recommended!." volcanic tongue


"new Satellite transmissions recorded in Pacific City Sound Visions Studio by Matt Mondanile of Ducktails and Spencer Clark of Pacific City Sound Visions. This futuristic tale of a Zero Gravity Sports network's soundtrack being transmitted from the Olympic Space Station via Satellite feed, revealing an intuitive feel for the grace and immensity of space when brought into conjuction with the next advent in Transglobal Sports News Interstitial music. five pieces of high energy portal from the difficult listening and metallic abstraction of "2042 Zero G Olypmics" to the Global Space Station Club Hit "JAI-LAi Nightclub." a modern soundtrack to a film such as Carl Sagan's "Cosmos," Egyptian Sports Network combines the the tele-prompt madness of current Global Sports Network with that of the blissful repetitions of ‘70s Minimalism. Think Sportscenter, but Intuit the the stream of your consciousness fed through satellites as it breaks through into the ether. prismatic polyrhythmic flux and radiophonic freakery sounding like Bruce Haack's wildest dreams, or something that a future Jonny Trunk might dig out in fifty years time. a total charmer. "Like Christine Amanpour on Acid", quoted from BBC Analyst." new images

"to celebrate the release of Egyptian Sports Network, Spencer Clark has compiled a mix of upcoming Pacific City Sound releases. This mix originally came as an exclusive Volcanic Tongue-only bonus cd-r included with copies of Monopoly Child Star Searchers ~ The Garnet Toucan lp."

collages: ben giles

listen ~ download ~ buy the lp vinyl here or here