Hard Molt, by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

Hard Molt

by Bren't Lewiis Ensemble

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1.	Patriotic Wasps Infected With Mind-Control Virus 04:29	buy track
2.	Chemtrails Over Paradise 10:30	buy track
3.	Nocturnal Moobs 09:09	buy track
4.	Illuminated Butter 04:55	buy track
5.	The Chert Holds Tightly 06:31	buy track
6.	Shameful Water Displacement 09:59	buy track
7.	Baked Alaska 07:03	buy track
8.	Timeline Of Hands Replacing Bloodhounds 09:19	buy track
9.	What Ever Became Of The Paprika Princess? 01:57	buy track

about

On the duskiest and murkiest album so far by this group of noise hillbillies, looped excerpts from studio improvisations form the congealed muck where chunky ashes of cacophonous live recordings embed and dissolve like wilted arugula paste. The album’s opening and closing tracks tear off their own feathers and hurl themselves down an embankment, choreographed by Tom Timpson’s eBay-worthy 45s on the turntable. Corrupted technique is on fine display here — a cross between Aufgehoben with lobotomies, a tourist hotel band attempting to cover The Starfuckers, and the Christian folk trio Jandek once played accordion with during his days in the military. Defeated-sounding whine’n’wheeze is the order of the day, as are Nyoukis/Constance-influenced collisions of the preordained and the spontaneously erupting, in which cut-up, looped noises and purposeful soliloquies compete with one another and sickeningly abstracted content. Lucian Tielens, wielding guitar and antique potato masher, wreaks King Guillotine-like depuration upon the unclean. Among the dark guitar extrapolations, dense processing, no-instruments montages, field recordings, live performances, and zero tolerance for finesse, warmth, or stylishness, highlights include “Baked Alaska,’’ the score for immobilist filmmaker Melvin John Addington’s Vast Expanse Of Rock And Snow, performed live by Tielens and Gnarlos at Colour Out Of Space in 2011, using nothing but toys and objects purchased at 99p shops in Brighton, England; and a centrally located duet by Tielens on Fisher-Price turntable and Silvia Kastel on electronics and voice, burbling like a mudpit underneath a crimson haze with more grace than typically dared by BuFMS mutants.

credits

released November 30, 2015

Recorded at Life Changing Ministries, Oakland, May 13, 2015; Old Market Theatre, Brighton, November 12, 2011; Fluxus Enigma Studios, Fair Oaks; Hazel’s ’Lectric Washhouse, Oakland; Chateau Van Maren, Citrus Heights; Drifting Over, Berlin. Mixed and edited at No Spray 205
Participants: Lucian Tielens, Tom Timpson, Lindy Lettuce, Silvia Kastel, The City Councilman, Gnarlos