On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, david turgeon wrote:
quoted 4 lines disregard the mildness of my comment earlier about supersilent 4...> disregard the mildness of my comment earlier about supersilent 4...
> it's a fantastic album! a mix between jazz, electronic music & noise
> should never work, right? well, supersilent is as relentless as free
> jazz, & as precise as the best techno. manages to loses shape without
Apologies if someone's been over the same ground here, but 4 was palpably
a drop in the bucket compared to the sustained cranial inversal of 1-3
(which is still one of my favorite releases of '98). Since I'm in the mood
to recycle, below is some verbiage sent to The Wire list (itself recycled
from a work-in-progress).
oh, and a rhetorical answer to the question above: Sun Ra....?
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Supersilent 1-3 3CD (Rune Grammafon)
This set is a full-throttle instrumental freakout birthed from a
fully electric jazz/improv nucleus. However, unlike most extant
examples of this praxis, the tendency to cartwheel into outer
space is continuously reined in by a masterful human pulse. It
is this omnipresence whose many manifestations in many different
pairs of hands (most of which are seemingly attached to the
drummer) provides the homebase for a dizzying array of
divebombing analogue synth sortees and electric guitar
throttling. Even though it's more swing than slam, students of
the eternal headbang may want to stockpile these in case of a
world-wide Slayer outage. For denouement, the third disc reaches
into more meditative spheres, but for the most part, it's GO,
baby, GO!
Copyright 1998, Robert Lim
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