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75 Dollar Bill
Power Failures (2lp)
First ever, remastered vinyl version! The core duo plus guest collaborators expand its sonic palette of Rick Brown's
elemental percussive patterns and Che Chen's ecstatic modal
guitar style to a new musical richness. With some tape releases and their first album 'Wooden Bag,' 75 Dollar Bill
quickly introduced themselves as one of the hottest, most unique and essential groups at the heart of NYC's underground
- the following 'Wood/Metal/Plastic Pattern/Rhythm/Rock' (2016) made the duo known internationally, and the 2019 double
vinyl 'I Was Real' turned out a major success at the critics and audience alike with the #1 spot in The Wire's albums of
the year list! Then came the pandemic, and in lack of opportunities to actually perform in public, the core duo of Rick
Brown and Che Chen released several Bandcamp only albums in digital format, one of these being 'Power Failures.' Brown's
elemental percussive patterns (often simply played on a wooden box)
and Che Chen's ecstatic modal guitar style (often under the influence of his studies with Mauritanian guitarist Jeich
Ould Chigaly) are at the core of the tracks with guest collaborators
like Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan (guitar), Sue Garner (violin) or Steve Maing (saxophone, guitar) expanding the sonic
palette to a new musical richness. Trance-inducing psychedelia, "placeless, gripping grooves" (The Guardian), collaged
rehearsal and field recordings, mantric percussion, microtonal guitar sounds - 75 Dollar Bill sound as deeply rooted in
traditions as they sound fresh-of-today, a kind of future music from the past. Hard to grasp by words, and impossible to
resist!
Price
€ 25.95
Genre
Format
LP - 2 disk
Release
25-08-2023
Label
Item-nr
537919
EAN
5050580804166
Availability
In stock