Artist : Kevin Drumm
Title : Kevin Drumm
Genre : Noise
Year : 2010
Date : 06/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 09
Label : Thin Wrist Recordings
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 76:30 min
Size : 114,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Untitled a1 07:34
02.Untitled a2 03:08
03.Untitled a3 09:57
04.Untitled b1 05:26
05.Untitled b2 09:48
06.Untitled b3 03:42
07.Untitled c1 17:11
08.Untitled d1 08:25
09.Untitled d2 11:19
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76:30 min
The expanded and definitive double LP
edition of Kevin Drumm's groundbreaking
first album, originally released in
1997. Featuring some of the most
fiercely abstract and organic guitar
work ever heard, Drumm's debut is both
jarring and completely alien. Dubbed by
some as the greatest prepared guitar
record ever recorded it prefigured (and
continues to trump) almost an entire
decade or so of contemporary "out" music
that would follow. Beautiful and
completely essential.
This edition includes an entire fourth
side of previously unreleased recordings
from Drumm's personal archive, all
recorded in the same era as the original
album. It also includes entirely new
artwork featuring the body of the actual
guitar used to record the album.
"Looking back at Kevin through his
formidably individual tunnel of works,
it's hard to remember that his first
official recorded statement would be
caught sneaking into bed alongside
history's milestones of "solo instrument
improvisation." Or that, in turn, it
also would be caught trying to sneak out
of the house built by Father Jazz, into
a backyard that still hasn't quite been
fenced off yet. Those running around
Chicago chasing down the sound in the
mid-90's should've already known about
this guy and his contributions both in
and out of the relative spotlight. For
those far from the city winds,
thankfully they might've gotten the
message in the form of this missive. In
the afterglow of later love letters
titled ôSheer Hellish Miasmaö and
ôImperial Distortionö, it's absolutely
overdue that this first musty green
postcard be dug out, polished off, and
framed.
Judged by its understated title, "Self-
Titled" aka "Guitar" is incredibly
literal -- what you hear is what you
get. In the simplest considerations, the
ensuing connotations and possibilities
are wide open; the real-time velocity of
urgent decision and movement are wrapped
in a clearly-mapped compositional
endurance that continues to stand firmly
in the relative spotlights of this day.
No surprise then, that even all these
years later, we would still be trying to
figure out exactly at which table Kevin
should squarely sit.
They say that every kid who heard this
record immediately went out and grabbed
a busted guitar with a scratchy selector
switch, ready to subject their friends
to fuzzy pauses of amp hum. I know of at
least four."
-- C. Spencer Yeh, spring 2010, Brooklyn
NY
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Kevin Drumm: guitar
recorded directly to tape in fall, 1996
Tracks A1-C1 first issued in 1997
(Perdition Plastics CD, per007)
Tracks:
Disc One (45 RPM) - A1...7:36,
A2...3:03, A3...9:57, B1...5:28,
B2...9:47, B3...3:41
Disc Two (33RPM) - C1...17:09, D1...8:24
(Previously Unreleased), D2...11:17
(Previously Unreleased)
Thin Wrist Edition produced by C.
Spencer Yeh and Peter Kolovos
Cover Concept: Kevin Drumm
Artwork: Peter Kolovos "KD Guitar, April
2010"
Mastered by Rashad Becker, D&M Berlin,
August 2009
Pressed at Pallas Germany
2 x 180 Gram Vinyl with Digital
Download, Heavy "Tip-On" Gatefold Jacket
with spot gloss & matte finishes
and textured de-bossing. Two full color
inserts
Released May 2010