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Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain United Fairy Moons CD-R £6.99 Ray Off is the solo guise of James Currin, who also runs the United Fairy Moons label, a small New Zealand imprint that looks to be one of the most consistently interesting purveyors of avant-thought this side of Corpus Hermeticum. Ghost Wolf Of Thunder Mountain is a fabulously eerie trip, combining evocative hillbilly guitar shapes (reminiscent of Six Organs Of Admittance at points), a Morricone-esque feel for spatial dynamics, some disconcertingly abstract electronics and a dimensionally fucked use of field recordings. The whole thing unfolds with a sense of narrative purpose that makes a lot of intuitive structural sense even as it swerves into wildly diverting passages of digital disruption and heavy drone: “Ghost wolf traverses inlet, plain, city and sky, battling altitude sickness and dreaming a crystal cloud beneath his limping, sticky pins.” Limited in a beautiful looking screened hard card gatefold sleeve. Recommended. |
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Nerve Pluck Game Sdn Rex 05 CD-R £6.99 “Switched-out surge-and-spike, drum-and-treble, thrum-and-tremble from Co., Inc. (Jon Chapman: ex-Double Leopards, Rory Storm and the Invaders, Ray Off, Sinking Infinities). Unvarnished digital and vintage analog constructs: solo improv dissected and interleaved upon solo improv; all hard-/ no soft-ware. Covers hand-built of cotton rag matboard and gummed linen tape, with woodcut-printed titles, and artwork of shaved willow charcoal and archival book-repair tape. Numbered edition of 100.” – CI. |
