Artist : Zoviet France
Album : Music For A Spaghetti Western
Year : 2005
Genre : Avantgarde
Source : CD
Label : Klanggalerie
Catalog : gg111
Rls.Date : 2006-07-18
Bitrate : VBRkbps
Size : 65 MB
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1. Scene 1 7:15
2. Scene 2 30:17
3. Scene 3 4:16
4. Scene 4 9:12
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51:00
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This previously unreleased album by the legendary :Zoviet France: was
recorded around 1985/6 at 5 Wingrove Road, Newcastle. Band members present
were Robin Storey, Ben Ponton and Paolo di Paolo. It is one of the best works
the band have ever produced and quite a miracle that an audio cassette of the
recordings has survived. Storey has carefully mastered the CD trying to
preserve the original sound and has also provided original artwork which was
made around the time of the recording sessions. An absolute must and a
totally overwhelming album.
'ZF explore the imagined ceremonial music for non-existant cultures bringing
chiming strings, hand percussion, breathy flutes, and extended vocalizations
to a dark kaleidoscope of tape loop machinations and multiple delay pedals.
(...) With almost their entire catalogue in limbo, any new recordings are a
reason to rejoice, and recordings as beguiling as these are certainly most
welcome indeed.'
(Aquarius Records, September 2005)
'The piece starts out with short sampled voices, but the main part is
reserved for the classic, trademark :zoviet*france: sounds: distant drums and
flutes, all embedded in the deep bath of echo, slight reverb and much
obscured sounds. Here the sound that made :zoviet*france: the unique band
that blended ambient and industrial music together, the sound of 'Eostre' or
'Mohnomishe', comes alive again.'
(Vital Weekly, October 2005)
'MfaSW overtly expresses disgust with thuggish US foreign policy being
sugarcoated by the senile Ronald Reagan, as :zoviet*france: reconfigure
Reagan┤s voice into spiralling repetitions that emphasise the dis-ease of his
charged political speeches. (...) :zoviet*france: run their signature battery
of plinkity-plonked ouds, hand percussion, breathy flutes and extended
vocalisations through effects, creating arresting rituals for imagined
cultures.
(The Wire, November 2005)