a r t i s t : Starving Weirdos
t i t l e : Eastern Light
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Root Strata (RS-09)
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2006
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 155,9 MB
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"Who would have though that a little cd-r from some unknown
group called the Starving Weirdos would have caused such a
ruckus? But stir up a ruckus it did! We have been selling that
first disc like hotcakes, and why the heck not, a glorious
noisy blast of free rock avant drone, No Neck by way of the
Dead C by way of the Yellow Swans by way of Avarus by way of
Sunroof! by way of Birchville Cat Motel. Or something like
that. For more on how we discovered the Starving Weirdos, or
more precisely how they discovered us, check out the review of
their debut cd elsewhere on the site. So now we have this here
brand new double cd-r and it's as good as if not better than
the first (it features one track that was on the first record,
but everything else is new and previously unreleased). The duo
of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay is truly adept at crafting
ramshackle conglomerations of clattery percussion, weird
warbling guitars, abstract ambient soundscapes, moaning horns,
shuffling almost-rhythms, wide open expanses of random sounds,
soothing and mesmerizing, a gloriously shimmery clatter and
shuffle, rattle and wheeze. Five lengthy tracks spread out
over two discs. Fans of ANY of the above mentioned bands will
be in drone rock free folk bliss out heaven!" - Aquarius
Records
"Fascinating drone/Improv madness from this impossibly obscure
Californian combo, with echos of the backwoods psychedelia of
the freer end of the free folk scene and the no-fi wilfulness
of The Dead C. The group strike a perfect balance between
drift and purpose, sprawl and discipline, noise and non-noise.
The results are rough but quite gorgeously radiant. "Plastic
Gagaku" envelopes an irregular percussive snap, shifting lines
of feedback and interjections from plastic toys in a dense fog
of reverb. The 20 minute "Friday the 13th Pt II" moves
dreamily through a series of vaguely narcotic atmospheres, but
with great conviction. There are sections that sound rather
like gamelan metallophones played through old 60s fuzzboxes,
and if that doesn't pique your intrest, nothing will." -The
Wire
http://www.rootstrata.com/catalogue.html
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cd1
01-Plastic Gagaku [13:29]
02-Sea-Foam at Midnight [16:46]
03-Quiet Shit [25:39]
cd2
01-Recital Hall [44:16]
02-Bro-in-Out [20:54]
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