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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Zoviet France
Title......: Loh Land
Rip Date...: Mar-19-2007 Cat.No.....: STCD 018
Style......: Avantgarde Label......: Staalplaat
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 98,5 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Produced for Staaltape by Soviet France, 1987.
Original recordings made April 1985.
all tracks composed & produced by Ben Ponton & Robin Storey
performed by Ben Ponton, Mark Spybey & Robin Storey
artwork & design by Ben Ponton.
"While Post Modernity and its malcontent little brother Punk
effectively deconstucted and ridiculed religious institutions by
pointed out their hypocrisies and inconsistancies with rational
thought, the two have been wholly unconcerned in addressing the
possibilities of transcendence or the notions of the sublime.
Zoviet France is an anonymous collective of British sound artists
who have been clearly educated with the halls of Post Modernity
and inspired by Punk's self-sufficiency; yet, the lack of an
existential awe in the face of the Divine never settled easily
with the group. Beginning back in the early '80s, Zoviet France
developed a musical aesthetic for private rituals built from the
artifacts and residues from what they saw as a cultural
disintegration (both physically and existentially). To a certain
extent, Zoviet France was making liturgical music to a religion
that never existed, but offered resemblences to what transcendent
music should sound like. The hypnosis from a drone, the
relentlessness of a tribal drum circle, and dub's etherial
references to various nether regions are all part of Zoviet
France's arsenal of quiet noise making devices.
Originally released as a cassette back in 1988, "Loh Land" is one
of the few albums from Zoviet France's early days that is still in
print, and encapsulates many of their ideas for a fictional music
rich with amorphously spiritual connotations. The aforementioned
drones, dubs, and drums alongside distanced vocal chants with have
been thoroughly abstracted through a series of delay effects
boxes, tape loop machines, and multi-track studio tricks, to
create the album's murky atmopshere. Zoviet France's "Loh Land"
succeeds in being beautifully but indeterminantly holy."
www.zovietfrance.info
p l a y l i s t
01 East Taunts West 03:15
02 Scacen 03:22
03 Notochord 01:15
04 Har Hou 02:53
05 Notochord 00:10
06 Shamble 03:02
07 Gygr Carlin 02:11
08 Al 'ud 03:00
09 Dust Deofol 05:49
10 Nostalgie De La Boue 05:59
11 Trom Eldr 05:18
12 Vlaag 03:38
13 Reson Deaw Gwalch 16:03
14 Lang Mark 05:08
15 Film-Pervsersion of Magnitudes 04:33
16 Film-Flicorian 03:57
17 Vlaag Morgen 03:38
18 Gathering Nostoc 03:50
77:01 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl