[22/04/03]
[Now available]:
SET FIRE TO FLAMES Telegraphs In Negative / Mouths Trapped In Static
2xCD (CD13-03)
This record is being released in North America by Alien8
(www.alien8recordings.com) and in Japan by P-Vine (www.p-vine.com). The
vinyl on this release is currently held up in production, but should be
available in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Two full-length albums in one from the 13-piece Montreal collective SFTF,
whose desolate but uplifting, existentially expressive yet emotionally
resonant, plain bloody beautiful pieces stretch the idea of modern
classicism as far as it will go. The LPs were recorded, by both individual
members and collectively, in an abandoned barn in rural Ontario and the
place has seeped into every tape loop, drone, drum and saw, every violin,
vocal, guitar and bird song. Too much to take in in one sitting, this is a
remarkable work by a truly extraordinary talent
[Time Out]
SFTF variously employ sleep deprivation, creative isolation, implied
substance abuse and other cultish behaviour in the quest for musical purity
and truth
But where Godspeed are all apocalyptic crescendos, SFTF are
almost an inversion of their sister band. This second release is a mammoth
double album. CD1 entails a creepy, paranoid and altogether more
frightening less-is-more evocation of the power of interference and
silence. CD2 is more there in its improv spareness, but the music
transmits a bereft, grieving loneliness that is quite overwhelming. An
astonishing work.
[X-Ray]
set fire to flames' "telegraphs..." is the newest, and perhaps bravest,
utterance from a scene with an uncompromising desire to evolve
their
improvisational approach creates a continuously shifting musical landscape
in which delicate cello or droning guitar gives way to the sound of
creaking wood, birdsong, or the heavy shuffle of human activity. The album
was recorded in a collapsing barn on an abandoned farm in rural ontario
during a five day session of improvisation and field recording and the
image of broken down architecture is perhaps the best metaphor for this
album. Radiant, shimmering guitar harmonies are allotted the same stature
as grainy static drones, as haunting solo viola or strange, intercepted
radio monologues. The overall sound is almost impossible to pin down. You
feel as if you are listening to the making of the music, the time and place
in which it happened, as much as the sound itself. Listeners keen to
experience the elated orchestrations of early!
Godspeed will be satisfied here... the music is simply stunning, its
sparsity creating a sense of delicate creation, of 13 people's fragile
attempt at communicating something tangible and beautiful through waves of
static.
[Absorb.com]
Recorded under strict self discipline, chemically fuelled to excess they
freely deliver pure expressionist music. Free of genre-binding suffocations
/ instead emoting hate and love through the use of fading electrically
powered musical instruments, found sound and a magical touch that David
Lynch should grab onto for his next nightmarish trip to the darkest
recesses of the human psych. Set Fire blaze through a much wider array of
colours and shadings. Superb music.
[Boomkat.com]
[MAY RELEASES]
12/05 Sigur Rós Untitled 1 10 / 3 CD / DVD+CD 10FAT02 /
CD10FAT02 / DVD10FAT02
12/05 Party Of One Caught The Blast CD / LP FATCD27 / FATLP27
[LIVE EVENTS]
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU
24/04 Nancy, Mjc Pichon
25/04 Montreuil, Les Instants Chavirés
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