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Daniel, Drew -& John Wiese-
Continuous Hole
This collaborative album by Drew Daniel (Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Smegma, LHD) is the
fruit of over 10 years of recordings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Baltimore. 'Continuous Hole' melds improvisation
and musique concrète composition into a unique document of labour-intensive rhythm. A finger puzzle of reconciled
opposites: lockstep structure and constant flux. Relentlessly variable source material is relegated to precisely timed
gated forms and patterns. Without using any sampling or MIDI sequencing, the rhythmic cuts are constructed entirely from
volcanic, gnarled abstraction, and eschew typical genre elements. Raw yet precise, from mayhem to menace, this is a
album of strong contrasts from two American artists discovering common ground in the joy of frenzied cutting. Our
personal favourite is 'Abhorred Shears', which reminds of the cut-up works of COIL's LSD yet remains utterly unique. A
prolific recording artist and visual artist with an extensive discography under his own name, and with noise stalwarts
Sissy Spacek, John Wiese is currently based in Cleveland. One half of the electronic band Matmos and all of The Soft
Pink Truth, Drew Daniel is based in Baltimore. Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio.
Presented in a matt-laminate 6-panel digipak with photography by John Wiese. The cover photograph was shot by John Wiese
in Drew Daniel's office on the campus of Johns Hopkins University where Daniel is a Shakespeare professor.
Price
€ 14.95
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
23-06-2023
Label
Item-nr
535216
EAN
0641871746101
Availability
In stock