From mltsnt Sent Sun, Aug 9th 1998, 00:08
From mltsnt Sent Sun, Aug 9th 1998, 00:08
ok.. i figured y'all might like to read this, especially since we all know how popular gil gershman is around here ;-) seriously, tho.. .anyone tape this show, or for that matter the radio show that was supposed to take place the night before... and what about this rekanstankerwerkersorhoweveruspellsit mix CD someone mentioned?? --- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:10:06 -0400 (EDT) To: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx From: GuerillaG2-G4 <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> Subject: Re: (amb) dark/death ambient recommendations/Mego @ PS1 >At 01:56 PM 8/2/98 -0400, Manny wrote: >were any other AMB-Lers else at the PS1/Mego event in Queens on Saturday? >Pita was forced into a blink-and-you-missed it (i did) 20 minute set. >Hecker, the new kid on the Mego block (_I T IS0161975_ CD out soon; review >later, if i can ever get "track -1" to play...) played an impressive set of >drones and loops, duelling subconsciously with the frequent trains passing >nearby. a sedative balm before Farmers Manual (reduced for this performance >to co-founder Matthias and recent recruit, Eugene) assaulted all in >attendance with a barrage of disfunctional computer noise which displayed >little rhyme, rhythm or purpose. anyone expecting the glories of _FM_,_FSCK_ >or (especially) _No Backup_ was no doubt dismayed. those who didn't think >that the most recent album was a double-disk electronic wank were probably >in bleep-hogs' heaven. FM occasionaly locked into something identifiable as >a degenerative groove, but they showed no real adeptness at live improvisation. > >Russell Haswell is better known for coordinating London's Disobey events; he >stepped out of the shadows to record the "Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger" LP >with Masami Akita, Reiko Azuma, Tetsuo Sakaibara (collectively: Merzbow and >his/their wife) for Mego. on this gorgeous cloudless Saturday he emerged in >all his conspicuous white sun-hatted glory to assault the PS1 revellers (who >were an extremely sedate and unemotional lot, i thought. only the rupture of >an enormous water-filled balloon sculpture elicited any sort of audience >response or enthusiasm. and if you only knew of the hassles which Haswell >and the Mego-ites went through to get to the City for this lone event...!) >Haswell was obviously having a blast (literaly), tweaking and twiddling up >an outrageously confrontational noise-storm in the Japanese or Irdial style. >all in good fun, if slightly repetitive and offering less than total melodic >satisfaction. > >but any qualms or quibbles about the previous acts were dashed when all FIVE >musicians took the Powerbook reins and steered through a course of >wonderfully crunchy electronic noise. iceberg tips of silence loomed in >their choppy sea, but the Good Ship Mego-Haswell avoided so catastrophic a >fate as prolonged stretches of quiet by veering to and fro violently, with >ten restless hands at the helm. a batallion of armored tanks plowing through >a china shop couldn't have caused a more contumacious public (and aesthetic) >disturbance. if this wasn't the electronic musicians' version of a >frat-house food fight (or a housewives' White Sale melee at the local >five-and-dime), then it was at least an especially enthusiastic >feeding-frenzy in the noise-sharkiest depths of the Big Blue. Peter (Pita) >Rehberg later told me (appropriately enough, while we were standing in a >gigantic working fridge, made from...other working fridges. that's PS1 for >you!) that the Mego brand of musical mayhem is their version of the "new >Rock n' Roll." so don't look for intellectual meaning or confuse their >ruckus for some sort of highbrow academic statement. it's very simple, >really; from Bayle and Schaeffer to Ice, SPK, Hanatarash, the Gerogerigegege >and back, boys just love their noise. > >and before you dismiss it as juvenile indulgence of the most despicable >stripe, keep in mind that Pita and Farmers Manual have been jamming their >way across Europe with the likes of Keith Rowe and the latest incarnation of >AMM. so, while it may all be fun, games and catharsis, there is no doubt as >to the musical validity of the Mego experience. > > >np: tesco disco: heavy electronics II > >gil gershman/ >xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx > >KING ? ---> > > >"fish cannot carry guns!" - h.f. > mult. http://members.xoom.com/multsanta/