a r t i s t : Vanishing_Voice
t i t l e : Stone Tablet
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Important
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Oct/2007
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 52,4 MB
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The Vanishing Voice head down from the mountain for another
dip in a lake of elephant seals.
A misty warbling leads down a twisted path where molten earth
and crust collide. The beginning of the end of the beginning.
Lots has been said bout these brooklyn teen idles:
"They're chasing rainbows!"
"They're graveyard spongeheads!"
"A pregnant poo-bah frolicking in the forest!"
No dice... Whatever Kraut or Swede compatriots that may be a
part time relation the Vanishing Voice are mining the soundof
the naughties in a subterranean part of brooklyn, as
reprehensible as that place might be the beast still roams
Gotham and these fuckers got him by the tail.
Stone Tab is a trip to be sure.
Mother Mark Ospovat cracks the whip of dogsled Imandi while
snarling bad dog Pete Nolan kept a forward propulsion on skins
and molten guitar spew. Mad man Steve J Taveniere of local
faves Meneguar lent a cool head and a popular sensibility to
the proceedings with skills on the acoustic axe to be sure.
Non horse Crane, magnetic wizard and dj let loose his usual
bag of hidden charms and H. "Reality" Diehl, with a voice said
to make many a grown man cry, a magik trash harp and the mind
of the other, kept us all in the ethereal realm. Don't worry
though, this strange brew rocks out for real and thanks to the
folks at Important Records, you can be sure it was recorded in
the highest fidelity known to man.
Good luck making sense of this one, a two-track album that
sounds like it was recorded by two different bands from a
single extended family: one, a downtown collective of
noise-obsessed city cousins and the other an inbred and
possibly drunk group of country cousins. The genetic
relationship is clear, but it seems rather distant. {&"Peace
Symbols"}, the album's first track, is 33 minutes long and
builds up slowly around the sound of distant guitars and other
ambient noise; eventually the drums kick in and it begins to
rock in a more or less straightforward way. Then, after
another fifteen minutes or so, the sound collapses in
on itself and fades off into the distance again. From the back
we hear faint wails and variegated clangor, while in front we
hear splattery fuzz guitar. Then everything faints out on a
somewhat dubby note. The second track, which in relative terms
is a model of concision at a mere ten-and-a-half minutes,
opens with the sound of male voice and acoustic guitar - it's
an actual song, written and performed in an explicitly country
style while backing vocals wail dolorously behind the singer.
Things can't go on this way, of course, and eventually the
tape is slowed, spindled, and mutilated, and about halfway
through the proceedings the whole thing is overtaken by layers
of buzzy electric guitar. Then everything slides slowly into a
shivering mess of feedback and distortion. And there you have
it. The perfect thing for people who like this sort of thing.
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01-Peace Symbols [33:00]
02-Last Evil [10:36]
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43:36 min