mmm........................................
what to say about Cindy, Loraine & Hank?
what?
that noise you've been hearing is me thinking about what to say about this CD...........for at least two weeks....that's a lot of thinking.....
I'll call them an 'art collective' - that's what they are
they are 'Erben der Dada Geist'
to be German about them
if Google translate is right...........
because they are based in Berlin.
................they are:
performance artists
provocateurs (see the extremely risqué artwork for the Dream Time CD)
sound collagists
improvisers
perhaps like conceptual art it is enough that it exists without the need to be seen (heard)
perhaps this isn't music
perhaps they have sensible jobs in offices too because they cannot surely make a living out of what they do
perhaps I should resist talking about specific tracks although it's hard not to mention:
Cherokee
& it's cut up sample of what I think is Charlie Barnet playing the Ray Noble Jazz standard before breaking down into plucked double bass, drums, sound effects on a formidable improvisational wander...
Antiphona #2
& whatever is 'played' here...things knocked together, blown, rewound, hit, struck...quite.....
...Cagey, you might say...
Der Fluss in der Truhe
& it's watery theme...field recordings...the 'plomp' of something dropping into deep water...laughter...footsteps........................
I think.....I think it's a fascinating
menagerie of sounds & the world
needs Dada nonsense/sense now.
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