TIP OF THE TONGUE 19 NOVEMBER 2005
Tori Kudo/La Consumption 4
Atlantic City
SIWA SA-5002
LP
OUT OF STOCK!
Archival release of a series of Kudo led guitar jams, rock songs, fraught jazz cocktail punks and bent aural scraps originally released as a cassette album documenting his various off-the-map musical activities during a brief sojourn in New York in 1981. Post-Noise, Kudo was already sketching the basic blueprint for Maher Shalal Hash Baz but La Consumption 4 were closest to his Guys N Dolls project in terms of aggressively applied post-Velvets no musicians logic. Some of the tracks here sound like "I Can't Stand It" with less Ostrich guitar and more dusted Cecil Taylor-isms. Kudo's lead guitar here is a particular treat and it remains the closest he ever came to the Heartbreakers/Quine school of classically detourned six string ginch. His voice is just beautiful, the group interplay beyond any notion of avant garde and closer to pure manhandled folk/blues joy and the picture of him on the back is enough to break your heart. Tori fucking rules and this is another great instalment from one of the most profoundly hard-thinking and peerlessly original musical pioneers of the post-punk age. Comes with a beautifully silkscreened sleeve and insert by Alan Sherry. Highest recommendation.
