Male - German For Shark

Male
German For Shark
(2010, Other Electricites)
RIYL = Supersilent, Zs, Splint!

The situation for Male is that they need to scrape clean an abandoned warehouse and all they’ve been provided with as far as tools go is instrument scraps. Some drum sticks to shudder the dirt from the walls, to scour the metal piping and its stains. A trombone to catch leaks and distribute cleaning sounds into the corner pockets (gets rid of those vermin). A guitar for sweeping or to be used as a hammer. This dilapidated piano – one with wheels on the bottom – to roll out all the scraps. These in addition to a muffled cornet, some crack-keyed vibraphone, a wobbly sax, and a bit of processing equipment, or something. I guess the janitor had been a jazz man. The band, Male, found that it was important to make the sound of cleaning exotic. In this way they were able to corrode the mess twice as fast based on the mentality of that mess being corroded understanding its process, ear-wise, in a much more adventurous manner (ya dig?). Of course, when in the process of a clean scrape, it can be difficult not to get sidetracked with your instrument at hand. To allow the guitar strings to pulse; to lay down some strict percussion; to hollow out the room with some mad-hot drone. And the tapes were running. Why not pass them off to some historied friends for remixing? German For Shark is a split of tension building free jazz and waterfront drone that cuddles perfectly into every corner and crack of a place, cleaning it out audibly. And you know what they say about cleanliness…

-Thistle

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Gultskra Artikler - Galaktika

Gultskra Artikler
Galaktika
(2010, Other Electricities)
RIYL = Ekkehard Ehlers, Anduin, White Rainbow

Gultskra Artikler is Alexey Devyanin is Russian is historied in magitronics. In 2010 Gultskra Artikler is Galaktika is an aircraft or a free floating system of electronics is jumbled variously with mud and roots is short on lighting is dark is brooding is permeated with ambient dirt, with grayish mist is in a jar with bugs, electric bugs, sputtering, buzzing, winged electric bugs is contained in nine jars is an exhibit of containment is crosspollination between soil and keyboards, synthesizers in said containment system, said jars is Galaktika. “Nanorobot,” for instance, is Galaktika jar number three is good and full with those bugs is also filled/full of echoes is lifting at the end is at the top of the jar is part of the mist is spooky/scary is in orbit. “Saturn,” then, is Galaktika jar number four is Artiler is “Nanorobot” layered/evolved is spectral lasers is spacial history is trickling caves is Fraggle Rock for insane asylums is the hum is the hum, ecetera. Galaktika is nine jars afloat is the expanse of space is hypersensitive to repetition, to the sorting of clutter is the missing colors in the light is the ambience of outer horror contained, multiplied, exhibited on the kitchen counter, dripping from the lids, seeping is Gultskra Artikler is the ghosts of electricity is Galaktika.

-Thistle

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