[UZINE] 03.04 [the free von bondies association tickets issue]
[REVIEWS]
(* = disappointing / ** = so-so / *** = good / **** = great / ***** =
classic)
VARIOUS "Found Sounds Version 2" ***2/3
cd - 2002-12 - Sounds From The Pocket (SFTP-PS-4) - 75'46"
So, how did you find "One Hour Photograph"? This cd's concept is just as
great, albeit a bit more 'fringe': a cd filled with found sounds, often
from
found tapes, packaged with found photographs in a found jewel case. There's no performing allowed. As a result,
most
of the music here are field recordings. And quite a lot are quite cool,
my
favourite tracks being the "Escalator suite" by Radboud Mens (a truly
soothing mantra), "Lectio #6" by Tore Honere Boe, "Penisize" by Newton,
as
well as the tracks labelled In Search Of The Marine Corp Hymn. Rosie
Laidler's primitive blues "I went to see my grandmother", as discovered
by
Thomas Peake, is atypical of this compilation but it's pretty fantastic
all
the same, and both Shell Corp's "I think I sprained my thumb" (a live
montage of record-your-own-records and scratched cd's) and Autio-Ethik's
"Rodeo-burger" are full of psychedelic mystery. The latter track
actually
sounds like something too far-out for the "Noodles" series. Dj Heavy
Cream's
two contributions, viz. two record-your-own-record recordings from the
forties are compelling too, whereas the mystery tracks sound like an
existentialist Sol Rosenberg on extra valium, as staged by Sam Beckett.
Also
featured, finally, is Janek Schaefer (cf. U0008+U0219+U0222), "who
implemented mailing a recording cassette deck long before I even thought
of
it", writes compiler Justin Waters in his liner notes... Indeed,
Schaefer's
track "Recorded delivery" is an (edited) 11-minute journey through the
postal system which should please those fascinated with postal systems
worldwide. And of readymades and Fluxus art, of course... like the rest
of
this compilation. If you're interesed in the poetry of both the everyday
and
the weird: find this cd! (pv)
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