-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Cole
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:08 PM
To: 'production unit'
Subject: RE: [idm] Scorn (was Godflesh)
I can't seem to find out what label the Lull releases were on on the net.
And I don't have the cds with me. But it seems like there's a bunch of info
about Lull on
http://www.mickharris.net
Lull is so beautifully dark. I listen to one of the cds I own almost every
night before I go to sleep.
Rock on.
Jason
Lull - Cold Summer
Harris already had two Lull efforts under his belt by the time Cold Summer
surfaced, but this packed-to-the-brim disc was easily the pinnacle of his
efforts up to that point, four lengthy songs that more than anything else
justified the "isolationism" tag that surfaced at the time to describe
chilled, cool ambient. Comparison points to the work of Thomas Kvner and
Main in particular work here, and in some respect Lull finds a particular
balance between both, combining the sense of hushed alien landscapes from
the former with the obsessive focus on rhythm from the latter. It's easy
enough to hear the connection to Scorn as well, with the chief difference
being the lack of any drums or conventional rhythm loops, but with the focus
strictly and solely on the slowly evolving textures and looped tones instead
of beats, Lull achieves its own identity instead of simply being a Scorn
remix, say. As much as the album title, the song names capture the
atmospheres at play -- "Slow Fall Inward," "Lonely Shelter," "Long Way
Home," "Lost Sanctum." The songs don't start and stop so much as solely waft
in and drift away, steady and slow progressions that float like ghosts. It's
the weird, nagging rhythms almost buried in the flow of drones and muffled,
stretched-out chimes and rings, the rising and falling of tones rather than
drum hits, which provide the core to the tracks, making the experience more
than just background music. Listening almost forces a hush on potential
listeners, shot through as the album is with just enough potential threat.
It's one heck of a long way from the hyperspeed blur of the earliest Napalm
Death records, to be sure, but Cold Summer demonstrates clearly how Harris
is very much the master of extremes. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
-----Original Message-----
From: production unit [mailto:productionunit@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:34 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org; Jason.Cole@DigitalMediaWorks.com
Subject: [idm] Scorn (was Godflesh)
I can't recommend any Godflesh - haven't heard any since my misguided and
unshorn youth - but I second the props to Mick Harris. Like the 'flesh, he
came out of the Earache/Grindcore scene in the UK, but by some of the
accounts here Godflesh returned to it.
He's extremely diverse, doing the fucked-up dub dubby/edgy hip hop thing
with Scorn, and a million other side projects.
The best Scorn things I have are 'Greetings from Birmingham' on Hymen, and
the early single 'White Irises Blind' on Earache, the second of which you
might like if you're into the older Godflesh stuff (from what I can remember
of 'Streetcleaner').
Saw him performing with Surgeon as Certain Beyond All Reasonable Doubt a few
years back, and it was mighty good - just massive black sheets of heavy
noise, with a tiny undercurrent of barely detectable, almost orchestral
tonality. I don't know of any releases by them, though.
Also, I just got an album of industrial drum and bass he did on Quartermass
as Quoit. It's very similar to the things he did with Eraldo Bernocchi on
what I think was the Quantum 484 label, and stuff I believe he was
affiliated to on the Possible Recs label. Not for the faint hearted.
And the Autechre remix of Scorn is superb!
As you can tell, I like him. A lot.
What label is the Lull stuff on?
Cheers,
Papa D
marciablaine.cjb.net
available:
s/t e.p. on Dalriada
inclusion on Benbecula "Music Volume 2"
The Marcia Blaine School Disco Vol. 1
forthcoming:
inclusion on Law & Auder "I Am:Bient"
inclusion on Struktur compilation "Red Zero Seven"
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>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:42:08 -0700
>To: "'Albers, Brian'" <BAlbers@PremiereRadio.com>, idm@hyperreal.org
>From: Jason Cole <Jason.Cole@DigitalMediaWorks.com>
>Subject: RE: [idm] r.i.p. godflesh
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>Along the same lines. Anyone on this list into Scorn? I believe that it's
>Mick Harris from Napalm Death and some other guy. Really dark dub type
>stuff. A little less intense than Godflesh. Also, Mick Harris has an
>ambient
>project called Lull. Super dark ambient music. I dig it.
>Sucks that Godflesh broke up. I got my friend's copy of Songs of Love and
>Hate. Never got to give it back to him before he passed away. Can anyone
>suggest a few other Godflesh albums for me to check out?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jason
>
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