Vas Deferens Organization - Pongcraft BRAD LANER

Vas Deferens Organization "Morte Code" Brad Laner of Medicine, Savage Republic

Vas Deferens Organization (VDO) is a collective based in Dallas (led by Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau, originally from Louisiana) that has been promoting a highly personal and excessively surreal vision of psychedelic music for years. 

VDO is also a studio (which moved to New Orleans in 1998) that provides the most bizarre equipment to psychedelic bands in the area. Castille and Lumbleau recorded a dozen cassettes as a result of their experiments. Their first vinyl release was Miasmata (Womb Tunes, 1996).

With Brad Laner of Medicine, V.D.O. recorded Transcontinental Conspiracy (Quaquaversal Vinyl, 1996 - Niklas, 2011), which features three long Dadaist suites. Purely instrumental, these compositions make use of electronic techniques and tape manipulation. The only connection to rock music is basically the drums.

First Plane Not To Plummet Seaward (sixteen minutes) opens with an oriental-style motif, a kind of bolero with jungle verses, which changes into a frenetic vibraphone music box with a background of tribal percussion.

 The melody crumbles into an excited rhythm of drums and electronic trills (a sort of ante-litteram “drums and bass” mediated by the cacophonies of Morton Subotnik), a phase of ingenious interlocking and overlapping of sounds that alone would justify the existence of the record. However, the music becomes even more dissonant, as if the tape were being distorted and played at variable speeds. Then the rhythm resumes relentlessly and the synthesizers begin to sing like out-of-tune birds in a metal jungle.

 The percussion takes over again with a metallurgical cadence that leads to violent distortions and dissonances and a chaotic finale of samples.

Last Few Days In The Land Of Happy Dreams (twenty minutes), featuring only Castille, Lumbleau, and Laner, is a more challenging track, constructed with samples and tape manipulations, populated by a heterogeneous crowd of difficult and often extreme sounds. 

Even when (after seven minutes) the drums come in, the jam continues to dispense random dissonances. 

Devoid of melodies and real rhythms, the suite lives mainly on frenzied collages.

T (nine minutes) is reminiscent of a group of orchestral musicians tuning their instruments. 

Nothing happens: the instruments simply emit disjointed sounds, as if searching for each other without ever finding each other, against a nerve-wracking crackling background.

The album can easily be placed alongside the most important works of avant-garde music.

SAVAGE REPUBLIC

Savage Republic - Procession: An Aural History (LTM (UK)).

LTM apresenta a definitiva best off em CD do grupo de Los Angeles postpunk Savage Repúblic.

Formada pelo designer-artista Bruce Licher em 1981, e inspirado igualmente pelo punk e Krautrock, Savage Repúblic gravaram quatro álbuns de estúdio entre 1982 e 1989, a maioria emitido através da sua própria editora Independent Project. A banda foi particularmente popular na Europa, fazendo regularmente tournés, e com uma aparição na banda sonora do filme Silêncio dos Inocentes.

A separação da banda original, em 1989, foi reformulada 12 anos depois, lançando o seu quinto álbum, 1938 em 2007. O best off Procission inclui faixas seleccionadas dos álbuns - Tragic Figures, Ceremonial, Jamahiriya, Customs e 1938, bem como singles raros, incluindo Swordfighter.

O pacote deluxe também inclui um CD bónus de 45 minutos gravado ao vivo num concerto de um festival em Espanha a 30 de Janeiro de 2010. Além disso, o álbum apresenta obras de arte de Bruce Licher, e notas de James Nice.

REGRESSO-novo fôlego

Quem voltou aos discos e com uma pequena digressão por Londres, Paris, Bruxelas BRUSSELS,e Bochum na Alemanha  foram os SAVAGE REPUBLIC, banda que praticam um rock experimental, misturado de post-punk e ritmos tribais , fazendo lembrar por vezes os A Certain  Radio.