a r t i s t : Autistic Daughters
t i t l e : Uneasy Flowers
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Kranky
c a t : KRANK115
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Jan/2008
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : avg. 169kbps
s i z e : 43,9 MB
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AUTISTIC DAUGHTERS Uneasy Flower is the second album by
Autistic Daughters, the intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts
(guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) and
Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It is also the fourth in a
series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more
abstract territory in New ZealandÆs mid-1990s æfree noiseÆ
ferment, has embraced song, lyric and voice as vessels for
topographic and psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of
territory and nomadism on the subject. This is reflected by
the shape-shifting nature of the outfit: while Autistic
Daughters, whose name comes from a lyric from their first
record Jealousy And Diamond, are resolutely a trio, they also
work in cinematic format, with ancillary players û in this
instance, Chris Abrahams of The Necks, Martin Siewert and
Valerio Tricoli û as part of both cast and crew, foley artists
behind the trioÆs complex, worm-turning arrangements. With
Uneasy Flower, Roberts traces the internal and external
workings of one protagonist: or, rather, a protagonist who
æcontains multitudesÆ, a figure that dissolves the unified
self. Rather, this character, Rehana, embodies multiplicity
and fragmentation in order to both a) address loss and b) aim
toward transfiguration, transcendence. There are traces in the
lyrics û traces of addiction and desire, myth and
transformation - that are obliquely reflected in the musicÆs
structure, its uneasy tension between the pop song (the
æmomentÆ) and experiment (the æprocessÆ). In some ways, it
reminds of the structural, loop-based cinema of figures like
Malcolm LeGrice: taking one moment and stretching it, the
better to capture its nuances and to draw out all the
repressed material caught in the mise-en-scene, the hidden,
cloaked content that erupts when your world spirals out of
your own control and gets caught in webs of interpersonal
politic. The move from intimacy to capture of the ægreater
pictureÆ enacted by both lyric and music here resembles a
camera dollying out, a shift of perspective unsettling for its
vertigo-inducing qualities.
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01-Rehana's Theme [05:36]
02-Uneasy Flower [05:30]
03-Liquid and Starch [04:32]
04-Gin Over Sour Milk [05:06]
05-Bird In The Curtain [03:06]
06-Richest Woman In The World [06:19]
07-Hotel Exeter Dining Room [06:03]
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36:12 min