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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: The Hafler Trio
Title......: A Thirsty Fish
Rip Date...: Sep-2008 Cat.No.....: KUT 6
Style......: Electronic Label......: Touch/Grey Area
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 96,8 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
...part six of the Golden Hammer series.
Note: this is not the 2CD reissue which properly replicated the
original 2LP from 1987, but rather the first CD version from 1992
which left out one side of vinyl. Sorry... Maybe the swell fellas
at D2H will hook us up!
Interviewed in 1993, Andrew McKenzie remembered A Thirsty Fish as
"a lot of work. For years I made all these incredibly complex
things but I had nothing except a TEAC four track reel-to-reel. I
didn't even have a mixing desk, I had a switcher box where you
could turn four channels into two. There's nothing in it that's
not some kind of religious or spiritual material, whether it's
readings or preachers or people undergoing past life
regressions... Spiritual is a terrible word, but essential
experiences."
An impressively accomplished work of considerable complexity, A
Thirsty Fish is dense, choppy and overloaded with information.
Perhaps it was McKenzie's very lack of means that forced him to
consider alternatives to more primitive manipulations such as
speed changes and cut-ups. There is a constant turnover of new
material (some of the more identifiable sound sources include the
sound of a saucepan filling with water, bird calls and human
voices), with no themes developed for any length of time or
returned to later; it only starts to pull back in its penultimate
section.
The result is a series of widescreen, multi-layered events - the
source material is abstracted, transformed and transfigured into
sound with transportative potential. Considering the limited means
at McKenzie's disposal, it's an extraordinarily imaginative work.
-Phil England (The Wire, April 2006)
p l a y l i s t
01 A Thirsty FIsh - The Dirty Fire - A Loud Egg 22:56
02 The Blind Table - A Hungry Stone 22:37
03 The Closed Bread - An Elderly Testament 25:42
71:15 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