Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Rhythm & Noise - Contents under notice ,LP ,USA, 1984


The experimental, largely unstructured sounds on Contents Under Notice fall roughly under the umbrella of the band's name, but just barely. One side consists of various-length sonic mood pieces ("Lull," "Vagues," "Looms," etc.); the other is filled with "Monomenon," a long hypothetical score of indescribable audio goings-on. It incorporates industrial sounds, other audio vérité, synthesizers, tape manipulations and god knows what else. In its raucous, multi-layered complexity, the piece asymptotically approaches sheer white noise din. Maybe this is what Martians with insomnia listen to.
The troubling anti-new age ambience on Chasms Accord could serve as the soundtrack to any number of offbeat films. Cut up into 13 segments with wonderful titles like "Lingering Fingers," "Bent Metal Forest" and "Delve," the LP — which acknowledges the assistance of Z'ev, Diamanda Galas and others — is high on drama and low on intentional ugliness, making it a vivid and apropos match for the stress of modern life.
[Ira Robbins]
Discography:
Contents Under Notice (Ralph) 1984
Chasms Accord (Ralph) 1985

7 comments:

  1. More great stuff today. Do you by chance have the Destroy All Monsters box set

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  2. hey brother! thanks so much for the grat reocrds you are posting, I mean this is a very easy way to educate people ears, so why everybody's listening to same shit over and over again.
    great work's goin on here.

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  3. this record and my "john trubee & the ugly janitors of america" sit next to eachother on my record shelf.

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  4. Hello,

    this link doesn`t work - can you post it agin?

    Please!

    Pawel.

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  5. Hello! Please, re-upload this link!

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  6. Dead link. Any chance of a re-upload?

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