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Private Time (Part Two) Weird Forest No Cat LP £16.99 Solo album from Jessica Rylan aka Can't that bundles a whole bunch of her most intimate experimental strategies: wildly truncated homemade electronic compositions; modulated fevers of vocals; stumpy idiot-avant rock hysterics and weird, fractured songs. Some of the more electronic tracks walk the line between overwhelming Industrial assault and vulnerable, unarmoured self-expression in a way that feels like the perfect 'use' of noise aesthetics, functioning as a cover for otherwise-awkward personal revelation. There are moments where Jessica roams so far from the piece-as-conceived, where she sounds like she's muttering to herself or adjusting some equipment, that feel more like documentary recordings than 'finished' studio work and it's this weird tension between public performance and uncomfortable voyeurism that gives the LP - and the bulk of Jessica's amazing back catalogue - much of its revelatory power. On the flip, her guitar playing combines Jandek style dissonance with coy vocals and some pretty funny lyrics and the whole thing ends with a supremely feral drums/vocal dirge that is pure Shaggs/Adris Hoyos/Heather Leigh. Edition of 500 copies with full colour sleeves and a colour inner bag with art by Jessica herself. Recommended. |
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s/t Free matter For The Blind CD-R £5.99 "Psicklops is the first work in a series of radical audio theater recordings under the moniker 'Dark Cinema' - which is to say that though there be no image, it is a film of sorts to be watched in the dark all the way through.To this end the narrative combine the engagement of point-of-view vocabulary normally limited to visual based cinema with the often abstract impressionism inherit in audio to produce an effect in which the audience is treated not just as an outside observer but complicit in, and anticipated by the piece itself. This first foray was conceived as a modern day sequel to Kafka's "The Trial" realized through a multi textured story using found sounds, guerilla field recordings, sampled creative common works, studio actors, experimental electronics, and other mind altering subsonic practices. The result is an invitation to a hypnotic journey- a one-way pass to a dark world of interrogation, surveillance and modern day capitalism. Psicklops is a creative commons project, produced by Raphael Lyon and FreeMatterfortheBlind Records with the assistance and collaboration of over two dozen artists and musicians: Dave Lifrieri, Raphael Lyon, Siren Cult (Mike Taylor), The trutheatertheater, Dennis Tyfus, Lucky Dragons, E P Talley, Lazy Magnet+ mudboy (organism), Jenny Nichols, Andres Ingoglia, The Blow, Jim Drain-(cover/poster art + actor), Mystified, Peter Edwards, Daisy Ambach, Harm Stryker, Copter (Poland), Jake Vida, Jo Dery with unwitting members of Dreamhouse, Ron Rege jr, Peter Fuller, Area C (E. Carlson), Luke Lamborn, Can't (Jessica Rylan) and many unknown others." |
