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Music of Transparent Means // Selected Live Recordings LP

Music of Transparent Means // Selected Live Recordings LP

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オーストラリアのギタリストMusic of Transparent Meansが、2022年にアデレイドの実験レーベルde la Catessenからリリースしたレコードです。

ライブ録音5曲を収録。

※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more De la Catessen releases available at Tobira.

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12" black vinyl. 
Includes insert with notes by Jon Dale.
Edition of 150. 

Tracklist:

1. Rose Street Womb 15:04
2. Burial Music 05:52
3. Second Presencing 10:45
4. Mountain Piece 2 (excerpt) 04:18
5. Disappearance #1 (excerpt) 05:34

Text excerpt by Jon Dale / De la Catessen:

"From Iggy on the cover of Raw Power to Black Sabbath, circa 1980, in Milwaukee, from the ’52 Cleveland riot through to Suicide in Brussels, a healthy dose of chaos and danger is at the heart of all great rock music. So, it comes as no surprise to hear Alex Carpenter, the musician behind Music Of Transparent Means (MOTM), talk about chaos as core to the development of his music: “Even though there was this purity and mathematical elegance throughout some of the thinking and theory, what I remember almost more than that was the chaos and the mess, the forcefulness, the saturation and obliteration. The clear ideal gave way to this kind of loud, intense chaos, which in turn opened a path back to the clear.”

Music Of Transparent Means has always struck me as a particularly rock-reverent kind of minimalism, as though Alex has removed all the excess baggage that rock has picked up over the decades and focused on its most important aspects: noise and intensity, energy and mayhem. There is, of course, a great tradition of rock minimalism, from the Velvet Underground through AC/DC to Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, on into Band Of Susans, Spacemen 3 and Loop, but Alex’s music is curious for the way it flips the script on those examples and gives us an altogether different take on the intersection of these two forces.

You can hear the ‘elegant chaos’ of Alex’s compositions throughout this second archival release by the ensemble, which is filled with music that’s both seriously beautiful and deliriously serious. If the first MOTM release on De la Catessen gave an extended view into Alex’s work, with one long piece per side, here we have excerpts from performances throughout the years, allowing a more expansive take on both process and outcome. What strikes me, listening to this music, is the way that Alex indeed allows chaos to take its own non-form, to coalesce and congeal into huge, abraded blocks of sound, to allow the meeting of musicians, many from different walks of life, to morph into one throbbing brain at the centre of the sonorous universe. [...]"

Artist : Music of Transparent Means

Label : De la Catessen

cat no : DLC007

Release date : 2nd August 2022

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オーストラリアのギタリストMusic of Transparent Meansが、2022年にアデレイドの実験レーベルde la Catessenからリリースしたレコードです。

ライブ録音5曲を収録。

※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more De la Catessen releases available at Tobira.

-------------------------------------------

12" black vinyl. 
Includes insert with notes by Jon Dale.
Edition of 150. 

Tracklist:

1. Rose Street Womb 15:04
2. Burial Music 05:52
3. Second Presencing 10:45
4. Mountain Piece 2 (excerpt) 04:18
5. Disappearance #1 (excerpt) 05:34

Text excerpt by Jon Dale / De la Catessen:

"From Iggy on the cover of Raw Power to Black Sabbath, circa 1980, in Milwaukee, from the ’52 Cleveland riot through to Suicide in Brussels, a healthy dose of chaos and danger is at the heart of all great rock music. So, it comes as no surprise to hear Alex Carpenter, the musician behind Music Of Transparent Means (MOTM), talk about chaos as core to the development of his music: “Even though there was this purity and mathematical elegance throughout some of the thinking and theory, what I remember almost more than that was the chaos and the mess, the forcefulness, the saturation and obliteration. The clear ideal gave way to this kind of loud, intense chaos, which in turn opened a path back to the clear.”

Music Of Transparent Means has always struck me as a particularly rock-reverent kind of minimalism, as though Alex has removed all the excess baggage that rock has picked up over the decades and focused on its most important aspects: noise and intensity, energy and mayhem. There is, of course, a great tradition of rock minimalism, from the Velvet Underground through AC/DC to Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, on into Band Of Susans, Spacemen 3 and Loop, but Alex’s music is curious for the way it flips the script on those examples and gives us an altogether different take on the intersection of these two forces.

You can hear the ‘elegant chaos’ of Alex’s compositions throughout this second archival release by the ensemble, which is filled with music that’s both seriously beautiful and deliriously serious. If the first MOTM release on De la Catessen gave an extended view into Alex’s work, with one long piece per side, here we have excerpts from performances throughout the years, allowing a more expansive take on both process and outcome. What strikes me, listening to this music, is the way that Alex indeed allows chaos to take its own non-form, to coalesce and congeal into huge, abraded blocks of sound, to allow the meeting of musicians, many from different walks of life, to morph into one throbbing brain at the centre of the sonorous universe. [...]"

Artist : Music of Transparent Means

Label : De la Catessen

cat no : DLC007

Release date : 2nd August 2022