FOSSILS
“CAMELOT TOWERS” (KSE #353, cdr album)
13 tracks, approx. 41 minutes—-edition of 48 copies
a co-release with Middle James Co. (MJC #443)
on this album, Fossils were Daniel Farr and David Payne
word from Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions:
For the first of SEVEN Fall-Winter 2016 albums, KSE is proud to
present our longtime friends, the only band that matters (to us),
Hamilton, Ontario’s FOSSILS, with a newly recorded (Spring 2016)
collection of sound sculptures that investigate the duo’s painterly
interest in space and texture. While the sound varies from track to
track, many of the pieces are piano-based, with sparse but clotted
bursts and squiggles that suggest a Twombly painting in sound, mixing
with what sounds like a slack-stringed guitar, played to bring out the
metal of the strings. There’s also electronics on some tracks, which
adds a nice electric-charcoal shading to those pieces. The telepathic
interplay between Farr and Payne is superb on this album—-those who
liked our duo album of last Fall by Tom Crean and Mike Barrett will also
like this, though it’s very different.
As I write this on a hot September South Texas afternoon with a
shadowy overcast sky and thunder rumbling somewhere in a neighboring
town, and the wind wants to pick up but it can’t overcome the sense of
dread and stillness, and no one wants to get up and do something,
knowing it will be rained out, this FOSSILS music is the perfect
soundtrack. Our environment sounds like a backward-run tape!
If you are new to FOSSILS, these gentlemen (with various other
co-conspirators over the years) have been an important force in the DIY
free-improv/noise community for many many years. When KSE branched into
music, we knew FOSSILS had to be on our label. Their whole “junk
sculpture” aesthetic and lo-fi approach has always seemed to me the
perfect extension of the punk aesthetic. Really, is there anything more
punk than, say, the Nihilist Spasm Band or the L.A. Free Music Society? I
think not….
I spend a lot of time listening to FOSSILS music, and it’s always a
sonic head cleaner, with (as stated above) a painterly attention to
texture and shading and space. It is pure, it is always fresh, and it is
four-dimensional sound sculpture of the highest order.
order now for $8 postage paid in Canada, $10 USA
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