artist : VA
title : Snake-Tongued, Swallow-Tailed
date : 2004
label : n/a
genre : Other
release date: 03.11.2006
street date : 00.00.0000
tracks : 05
bitrate : VBRkbps
size : 78,6 MB
source : CDDA
type : Soune
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Tom Carter (Charalambides) & Vanessa Arn (Primordial
Undermind, Gourmet Chef) combined their powers to tap the
reverberant waves of the ether on this split release with
improv trio from Ukraine - the Moglass. While Carter / Arn
part made with lap-steel guitars and triwave picogenerator
sounds very soft, cajolingly and tensely at times, the
Moglass part sounds more dense and brighter.
http://www.nexsound.org/carter_arn_moglass.html
Tom Carter has best been known as one half (and sometimes one
third) of the improvising psychedelic folk group
Charalambides. During a California tour by that group, Tom
was lent an old Gibson lap steel guitar for one San Francisco
performance by the then-owner of Aquarius Records. That
started a long love affair between Tom and San Francisco
(which he can now gaze at across the bay) and also the lap
steel. Instantly drawn to the long sustain and heavy
resonances of the instrument, Tom recorded Monument
(originally a cdr, now a release on kranky) and began
incorporating it into Charalambides as well.
Vanessa Arn became a member of Boston/ California /Texas
group Primordial Undermind soon after Tom's brief tenure in
the group. The potential for mountainous difference tones
between the lap steel and the triwave tone generator (a
custom built synthesizer) was immediately apparent to all
parties, and Tom suggested a collaboration (which was greatly
assisted by the fact that Tom and Vanessa were at the time
next door neighbors). A sole performance and a handful of
recordings ensued and the results are here for your perusal.
The group under the Moglass came into being in 1997, preceded
by five years of home projects that were never released in
public. The Moglass widely used the latest technical
achievements of the time such as sampling and postproduction
of all kinds, hereat gaining a reputation as post-rock
musicians and performing at fashionable discos on repeated
occasions. The evidence from this period is still kept in
some albums as well as in record called "Saliva" available in
mp3 format at Nexsound website.
Spellbound with the aesthetics of freeform music, the
musicians of the group gradually turned away from glossy
sound of their early records and began to decline invitations
to fancy discos thus gaining freedom of creating music at
home and communicating with a bunch of soul mates scattered
all over the world. Up-to-date records of the Moglass are
spontaneous improvisations, mostly live records, that by no
means always can be called free-noise because sometimes they
are very gentle and melodic.
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01-Tom Carter and Vanessa Arn - Mojave-Pyt 10:48
02-Tom Carter and Vanessa Arn - Atmananda-Pyt 22:44
03-The Moglass - Untitled (Tawny Owl)-Pyt 08:36
04-The Moglass - The Map (Webfootprinted)-Pyt 13:36
05-The Moglass - Kakerlakische Kakerlak-Pyt 09:35
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