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Psychotic Reactions & Lightnin' Rag
2004 release ** "Here an hybrid instrumentation entangling blues and electro-acoustic music re-plays for us the complete history of recorded music. There is no deferred time between the instrument being played and the reworking of the recording parameters. All movements are connected in real time, as close as possible to the body. Hands on the tapes, fingers on the strings, fresh blood is springing, free from conventions, as if to abolish the principle of separation our society is built on. It’s…
Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues
Bruce Russell : acoustic guitar, vocal, analogue Tape treatments, mixing and composition. Ralf Wehowsky : sitar, digital sound processing. Recorded 2003-05, Lyttelton, New Zealand and Eggenstein, Germany. Digital mastering at the Temple of Music. “It is Midnight during the summer of 1951, the scene is a rural Crossroads somewhere outside Paris. A man called Pierre Schaeffer is sitting in the grass by the side of the road. As the village clock strikes the hour he invokes Eleggua, the Yoruba god o…
Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues
Recorded 2003-05, Lyttelton, New Zealand & Eggenstein, Germany. Digital mastering at the Temple of Music.