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Friday, 27 November 2009
Inverz - Slow (2009)
Inverz is Thessaloniki-born Savvas Metaxas, who runs the excellent Granny Records stable. Influenced by the
likes of Fennesz, Pan American, Alva Noto and My Bloody Valentine, Metaxas utilizes acoustic &
electric guitars and an arsenal of pedal effects and field recordings, to create a sound rich in texture and
panoramic in depth.
‘Slow‘ is the third Inverz release to date, a suite of four meticulously crafted long-form compositions that transcend
the standard notions of Ambient/Drone.
‘Everything In Order‘ bathes in dreamy reverb, like Labradford or Chihei Hatakeyama at their most thoughtful.
The title track tantalizingly weaves fretboard scratches, human breath and flickers of static round cut and
spliced guitar recalling Fridge at their most experimental. The slide-rule attention to detail of both book-ending
pieces ‘Home End‘ & ‘New Found Lands, New Found Sounds‘, on the other hand, shows why Metaxas was
hand-picked to collaborate with Greg Haines and perform with Machinefabriek.
A very fine piece of work indeed.
Get it:
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
RePost - Quintessential (Why Lou Reed should have listened to Bob Quine more)
"Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument, he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new, individual vocabulary, driven into odd places by obsessive attention to 'On The Corner' era Miles Davis." (Lester Bangs)
Ikue Mori, Bob Quine & Marc Ribot - El Dorado
Jody Harris & Bob Quine - Flagpole Jitters
Bob Quine & Fred Maher - Village
Bob Quine - Film Music 9 (unreleased)
You can get them all here.
Quine's favourite piece of music 'He Loved Him Madly' by Miles Davis here.
Recent article on Quine's death by James Marshall and more music here and here.
Richard Hell on Quine here.
(In a recent Invisible Jukebox that Lou Reed did for The Wire, he was played Miles' 'He Loved Him Madly' and professed to not knowing it but agreeing that it sounded very similar to his Metal Machine Trio. Should have listened to Quine...)
Ikue Mori, Bob Quine & Marc Ribot - El Dorado
Jody Harris & Bob Quine - Flagpole Jitters
Bob Quine & Fred Maher - Village
Bob Quine - Film Music 9 (unreleased)
You can get them all here.
Quine's favourite piece of music 'He Loved Him Madly' by Miles Davis here.
Recent article on Quine's death by James Marshall and more music here and here.
Richard Hell on Quine here.
(In a recent Invisible Jukebox that Lou Reed did for The Wire, he was played Miles' 'He Loved Him Madly' and professed to not knowing it but agreeing that it sounded very similar to his Metal Machine Trio. Should have listened to Quine...)
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
So...what?
So what if the new proletarian position is that of the inhabitants of slums in the new megalopolises? The explosive growth of slums in the last decades, especially in the Third World megalopolises from Mexico City and other Latin American capitals through Africa (Lagos, Chad) to India, China, Philippines and Indonesia, is perhaps the crucial geopolitical event of our times. It is effectively surprising how many features of slum dwellers fit the good old Marxist determination of the proletarian revolutionary subject: they are "free" in the double meaning of the word even more than the classic proletariat ("freed" from all substantial ties; dwelling in a free space, outside the police regulations of the state); they are a large collective, forcibly thrown together, "thrown" into a situation where they have to invent some mode of being-together, and simultaneously deprived of any support in traditional ways of life, in inherited religious or ethnic life-forms.
While today's society is often characterized as the society of total control, slums are the territories within a state boundaries from which the state (partially, at least) withdrew its control, territories which function as white spots, blanks, in the official map of a state territory. Although they are de facto included into a state by the links of black economy, organized crime, religious groups, etc., the state control is nonetheless suspended there, they are domains outside the rule of law.
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