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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Damo Suzuki and Cul de Sac
t i t l e : Abhayamudra
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Strange Attractors SAAH2728
g e n r e : AlternRock
r l s. d a t e : Dec-04-2004
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 195,4 MB
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SAAH-2728 2xCD
Cul De Sac, Damo Suzuki / Abhayamudra
Release Date: 11/2/2004
Damo Suzuki / vocals
Robin Amos / synthesizers
Glenn Jones / guitar
Jonathan LaMasters / bass
Jon Proudman / drumms
"We had to learn to be FEARLESS, to be willing to make
mistakes, to play beyond what we thought were our own
abilities." - Glenn Jones/Cul de Sac, on playing with Damo
Suzuki; Dream Magazine #4 interview
Boston's instrumental innovators Cul de Sac teamed up with
infamous ex-Can vocalist Damo Suzuki for a tour of the US and
Europe in 2002 and 2003, respectively. A pairing for the ages
to be sure, for very few bands other than Cul de Sac operate in
the same heady and rhythmic sphere as Can did - they are a
perfect modern-day backdrop for Suzuki's free-associating vocal
approach. However brilliant and almost obvious a pairing it is,
there wasn't much forethought. Having never met each other, Cul
de Sac received an email from Suzuki totally out of the blue,
suggesting they collaborate. How did this come about? Seems
that a perceptive fan had slipped a copy of Cul de Sac's second
album, the ubiquitous I Don't Want to Go to Bed, to him at a
show. It only took a few months for Suzuki to listen to it
(!!!), but one day as he was cleaning his apartment he popped
it on - and promptly sent the band a request that they tour the
US together.
The one caveat: no rehearsing.
Four hours after Suzuki stepped off the plane in Boston, he and
Cul de Sac played their first show before an enraptured crowd
at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA. Everything clicked.
"Instant composing" is Suzuki's terminology for his philosophy
of penning songs (not "jamming" or wanking by any stretch of
the imagination) on the spot, on stage, allowing chemistry and
energy to dictate the creation of the music and the path it
will follow. For Suzuki, nothing is planned in advance. In
keeping with Suzuki's spirit, Cul de Sac allowed the process to
flow without rehearsing any new tunes of their own, or playing
anything from their repertoire.
The results are nothing short of astounding.
Abhayamudra is a 2xCD collection of what Cul de Sac and Damo
Suzuki consider to be the best moments of the 45 dates they
played together - nearly 138 minutes of stunning psychedelic
avant mayhem, performed live and composed entirely on the spot.
Cul de Sac refract clusters of electronics, sorrowful violin
and genre-defying surf/middle eastern guitar over chugging bass
and astounding polyrhythms, while Suzuki concocts his vocal
somersaults over the affair, manipulating the direction of the
tunes like it was liquid in a vessel. Abhaymudra immortalizes
some very special moments captured on stage, a musical genesis
that, by its very nature, could only be conceived at its
particular moment in time and can never be replicated.
www.strange-attractors.com
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CD1
01-Beograd 1 [14:58]
02-Halle 2 [20:36]
03-Baltimore 5 [13:35]
04-Berlin 4 [09:00]
05-Frankfurt 4 [12:59]
CD2
01-Beograd 6 [08:10]
02-Cambridge 1 [08:07]
03-Berlin 6 [03:55]
04-Kopenhagen 3 [09:10]
05-Berlin 3 [10:37]
06-Zagreb 3 [18:14]
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