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From:
R. Lim
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Date:
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:38:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
RE: [idm] M B V , Seefeel and other shoegazers
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Andreas Tilliander wrote:
quoted 3 lines hmm...i can?t compare fennez to mbv,> hmm...i can?t compare fennez to mbv, > but it soulds interesting. what do > they have in common?
Use of guitar sounds and a kind of pillowy ambience that coats their music. For fans of MBV, I recommend the Portugese musician Rafael Toral (whose _Wave Field_ sports Loveless-inspired cover art)- great acousmatic guitar drones which accumulate to a frothy buzz. Check out Sound Mind Sound Body or Aeriola Frequency. There's also an e.p. length CD on Tom which contains outtakes from _Aeriola_, but I haven't heard it. It doesn't actually sound much like MBV, but it comes from a similar place. It's kind of interesting that Seefeel is mentioned- their best stuff, while not under-rated per se, draws far less breath on this list as I would think. The early Too Pure singles are genius, as are their latter day Warp/Rephlex output (in particular Starethrough and Succour/CH-VOX). Disjecta are ok, but I find something unsettlingly brittle and jarring about their records. -rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org