Chora
"Plume Like" CD
Zerojardins
Genre: freaky Fridays
Peckham, UK
January 2010 |
Recorded live though I don't know where,
Chora's Plume Like collects three improvisations from
these Peckham-based adventurers. Centred by main duo Rob Lye
and Ben Morris (joined by I-have-no-idea-who), the troupe
jiggies their way from start to finish here, turning in an often
joyful effort.
Title-track "Plume Like" begins with a
strange rattle and birdlike coos, with the clattering slowly
becoming more and more prominent. Eventually the guitars take
centre-stage, the track wrestling itself into an increasingly
depraved industrial soundscape. From the halfway mark on, a
dreadfully delightful passage of dirty guitar drone takes over, raw
like a Thurston Moore outtake, and made to
be blared through a warehouse. This grimy noise lays in sharp
contrast to the next improvisation, "Tap Head,"
which is a bubbly stew of percussive
clink/clanking, all junky-like.
While it succeeds in evoking a vague sense
of ominousness, it nevertheless fails to
accomplish anything particularly original,
ultimately ranking as the record's least interesting feature.
The lengthy final
track (clocking in at an expansive
twenty minutes) then hits with a cheery bang, performed ratter-tatterly
as a multi-staged, psychedelic jam session constructed around a
noise-and-percussion back bone. Overhead the listener
is forced to defer to a tasty section of
tribal guitar strums, yearning sax swoops, and spacey drones. This
is very enticing and vaguely tuneful stuff
-- a noteworthy length of improv that's more than
just disorganized instrumental blather. I believe they're
calling this stuff 'avant-freak' or some such hyphenated bubb-rubb
nowadays.
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Michael
Tau
[Vitals: 3 tracks, distributed by
the
label,
released March 2007] |