ARTIST: Capillary Action
TITLE: Fragments
LABEL: Pangaea Recordings
GENRE: Easy Listening
BITRATE: 196kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 43m total
RELEASE DATE: 2004-11-23
RIP DATE: 2006-02-19
Track List
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1. Ticking Ghosts, Pt. 1 2:40
2. Ticking Ghosts, Pt. 2 5:22
3. Constant Steady Collapse 3:34
4. Driving Through Twilight 2:58
5. Scattered Remnants 8:09
6. A Hundred Pages Of Cannot Be 3:43
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7. Mid-Coital Seizure 4:37
8. It Was A Typewriter 1:46
9. Architecture Would Fail 7:16
10. Pillars Disintegrate 3:19
Release Notes:
For all intents and purposes, Capillary Action is Philadelphia native and
Oberlin College junior Jonathan Pfeffer often accompanied by keyboardist Sam
Krulewitch, drummer Ricardo Lagomasino, and bassist Spencer Russell.
The music is hard to describe in simple terms: on Capillary Action's 2004 debut
Fragments (Pangaea Recordings), Pfeffer dabbled in melodic death metal rave-ups,
fractured no wave-inspired crescendos, Latin rhythms, video game music, lounge
jazz, new wave synths, and mathy melodies-- sometimes all within the same song!
Picture a Naked City without the bar-band leanings, a more eclectic version of
Hella, or Fugazi, Boredoms, At The Gates, James Chance, Antonio Carlos Jobim,
and Godspeed You Black Emperor engaged in a vicious argument over a parking
space and you might begin to scratch the surface of the sound being relayed on
Fragments.
On the forthcoming sophomore effort, Cannibal Impulses (Pangaea Recordings, due
out Winter 2005), Pfeffer changes the pitch up completely, discarding the
eclectic math rock stylings of Fragments for something completely fresh.
Cannibal Impulses is an inhumanly precise expedition into Pfeffer's warped
psyche with just a few of the following images cropping up over the course of
the album: sexual frustration, isolation, alienation, failure, hospitals, mad
scientists, far-off lands, malfunctioning NES cartridges, indignant B-boys,
drugs, being stranded in Alaska after your plane crashed and killed everyone on
board except you, and coming to grips with the fact that you're staring into the
eyes of something larger than yourself.
Cannibal Impulses incorporates influences from all over the map: the meticulous
nature of composers like Stockhausen, Stravinsky, Boulez, Xenakis, and Lionel
Marchetti (particularly Marchetti's overwhelming attention to detail) the
insistent melodies of Javanese Gamelan, the cultural misappropriation of Escape
From Noise-area Negativland, the harsh, orchestrated noise of Japa-noise
maestros Masonna and Merzbow, the blink-and-you'll-miss-it aesthetic of
grindcore royalty Discordance Axis, and the cut-and-paste production styles of
DJ Shadow and Prefuse 73 are all taken apart and put back together with
Pfeffer's own unique spin on matters. The result is the aural equivalent of
being devastated by a glitched-out tsunami and living to tell the tale.
With a full band in tow, Capillary Action's frenetic live show, which has often
resulted in a variety of injuries, will be hitting a city near you in the coming
months.