ANLA COURTIS / SEIICHI YAMAMOTO / YOSHIMI
Live At Kanadian
(Public Eyesore - PE110) CD $15.00
(Public Eyesore - PE110) Used CD $7.50
A guitar duet by Courtis and Yamamoto with tons of delays and plaintive keyboard tones that grow increasingly harsh, climaxing in a steel mill din. On their silence-punched duet, Yoshimi and Courtis pile shrieks on top of layers of effects, guitars, and synths. The headache-inducing sustained keyboards and guitar banging on Yamamoto and Yoshimi’s track conjures up 1980s hair metal. The twenty-six-minute trio is the boldest and most aggressive thing here: commanding Yoshimi vocals, fuzzed-out guitar grinds, spacious metallic rhythms.
III
(Public Eyesore - 28) Used CDR $5.00
Thirty-six short duets from 2001, perfect haikus éléctroniques, semi-fermented and compressed much like a fine oolong or adolescent foot-binding.
Go
(Public Eyesore - 96) Used CDR $5.00
Spastic sub-machinegun drum machine outbursts, random samples and squealing feedback noises. The secret bonus track is bass heavy electronic noise, marinated for a few weeks in reverb and dragged behind a car, rumbly, and lo fi.
Viovox
(Public Eyesore) Used CD $3.00
Marsh processes violin and cello, messes around with sampled loops, electro-percussion, and processes his voice, resulting in a series of weird radio transmissions from another dimension. The voice shifts through layers of meaning, instruments call and deconstruct and repeat, percussion weaves in and out, and the mind tries to build something from the words, grasping at interpretation as actual statements fly past. Loops and playful scraping scatter in the background echoes into darkness. An album of drama and fascination.