a r t i s t : Dream-Aktion Unit
t i t l e : Blood Shadow Rampage
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Volcanic Tongue (vt003)
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Oct/2006
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 75,6 MB
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Volcanic Tongue is proud to present the first ever release by
the Dream/Aktion Unit, a free-thinking avant garage Ur-kestra
based around the central kernel of guitarist Thurston Moore
(Sonic Youth), saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris
Corsano (Six Organs Of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of The Man
et al) and featuring Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis
Tula/Jandek/Charalambides) on pedal steel and vocals and Matt
Heyner (No-Neck Blues Band/Test/Angelblood) on upright bass.
The Dream/Aktion Unit were originally birthed as a side-
project to allow Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke to fully
explore the kind of ecstatic power blues that their work in
Sonic Youth repeatedly implied. The addition of legendary New
England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and powerhouse drummer Chris
Corsano provided them with an umbilical connection straight to
the source of modern musical freedom, while working to
liberate them from previously articulated modes of known rock
-speak. As a quartet, the group tore through a bunch of the
USA's most winning festival spaces - their ground-levelling
F/X pedal assault at the De Stijl/Freedom From bash in
Minneapolis in 2003 being a particular landmark - with both
guitarists drawing creative sustenance from the kind of ego-
obliterating drums/horn interaction previously articulated by
players like The Reverend Frank Wright, Glenn Spearman, Denis
Charles and Albert Ayler.
Come 2005 - with sub-underground modes enjoying a particularly
unlikely shot in the sun - The Dream/Aktion unit began to take
on the role of some kind of spontaneous think-tank, with a
revolving door policy towards membership and a commitment to
the demands of the moment resulting in almost orchestral
incarnations featuring members of Burning Star Core, Hair
Police and Vampire Belt all pushing the hell out of the
envelope.
In May 2005 Moore, Flaherty and Corsano brought the
Dream/Aktion Unit to Stirling, Scotland, for the final Le
Weekend festival to be curated by David Keenan/Volcanic
Tongue. With O'Rourke permanently out of the picture due to
various film and musical commitments, Matt Heyner aka Count
Hejnowski of NNCK and Heather Leigh of Taurpis Tula stepped
up. The results were mind-blowing, with the quintet tearing
through a non-stop gush of energy/ideas without resorting to
base musical concerns like dialogue or listening with your
ears. This was pure simultaneity at some kind of peak of flux.
Moore's role was key. He would move from these kind of
suggestive, shepherding chords that would work lubes of motion
into the back line, where Corsano and Heyner hooked up to such
a degree that it was hard to separate their individual tonal
and percussive points. They sounded like a friggin combine
harvester. Murray and Flaherty were floating on their own
particular plane, one that worked to reconcile the insane
pulse of blood from the base of their spine with the juice of
pure vision. Flaherty's sound touches on a whole bunch of jazz
modes while re-situating the tradition somewhere way upwind of
contemporary sound-as-thought while Heather Leigh's
exquisitely violent pedal steel stylings and free vocal
improvisations seemed to touch on aspects of both Patty
Waters, Lydia Lunch and Keiji Haino's flesh-extensions while
resolutely refusing anything approaching previously-
articulated tongue. The whole thing was recorded and mixed
straight to 24 track and the results are what you have in your
hands. The first ever document of the collective thought of
what's easily the cream of the subterranean cup. Packaged in
deluxe hard card gatefold sleeves with specially-commissioned
eye-gouging video nasty-style artwork from Miss Karen
Constance of Brighton aka Karen Lollypop of Blood Stereo/Smack
Music 7/Chocolate Monk this is the first ever 'real' CD
release from Volcanic Tongue after a run of limited and highly
collectable art-edition CD-Rs.
http://www.volcanictongue.com/artist.php?art=Dream/Aktion%
20Unit
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01-Birth of the Ghoul [09:55]
02-Tales of Entrails [10:00]
03-Buried Alive and Loving It [04:20]
04-Brutal Lust [08:13]
05-Never Never Nightcrawler [05:56]
06-Your Missing Foot [03:04]
07-Here Come the Fucking Dead [08:30]
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49:58 min