SunnO)))
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Sorry, that was in reference to this thread: http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3916polystyle desu said:
I like Sunn O))) quite a bit. I think that they've taken the groundwork of metal riffage, Earth, Spacemen 3 and Tony Conrad and forged something totally unique and interesting from it. I got a glimmer of this sound from Kevin Drumm's Mego record a few years back which was noise, but different in that it was supple and not shrill and had harmonics that didn't drive me up the wall. He also had the black metal tropes going too. Sunn O))) is a surprisingly calmer affair and I like its meditative quality.
I missed them when they were in town a few weeks back and regret it.
Here's the Flickr tag page:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sunno/
I also think that it's very they've hooked up with Oren Ambarchi whose work I've always loved. At first, it didn't make sense, but after a I thought about it for second, it did.
That still doesn't change the fact that the art world loves to latch on to anything that might appear to be "transgressive."
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throughsilver
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Japanese power trio. Debuted in 1996, I think, even though they all look like teenagers.m99188868 said:
Lots of stuff. I have bought 7 albums that they have released since 2000, and there is more to get.
Notes I scribbled for another forum a while ago:
OldRottenhat
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Boris - Feedbacker: At Last is also excellent, on the same tip as Flood judging by Throughsilver's description, a single track that develops through sections reminiscent of Pink Floyd or maybe even Codeine into an oceanic guitar drone meltdown that is just crushingly lovely. Sun Baked Snow Cave (with Merzbow) is all drone and sounds a bit generic although maybe I haven't listened to it enough.
I love Boris and I particularly love the fact that the guitarist in this unbelievably noisy and heavy band is this elfin japanese woman rather than someone more like, well, Stephen O'Malley or Greg Anderson.
Anyone know if Southern Lord are likely to do a US issue of Flood? I'd love to hear it since it seems like everyone's favourite Boris album but I haven't been able to bring myself to lay out thirty bucks for a Japanese import.
I love Boris and I particularly love the fact that the guitarist in this unbelievably noisy and heavy band is this elfin japanese woman rather than someone more like, well, Stephen O'Malley or Greg Anderson.
Anyone know if Southern Lord are likely to do a US issue of Flood? I'd love to hear it since it seems like everyone's favourite Boris album but I haven't been able to bring myself to lay out thirty bucks for a Japanese import.
throughsilver
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No prob.m99188868 said:
Yeah, got that the last time I saw them. Very similar, structurally, though Flood sounds more 'organised' if that means anything. I'm deprived of sleep at the moment. Flood is more consciously 'epic' (in a super-Mogwai-circa-1999 way), while Feedbacker is more of a jam feel to me.OldRottenhat said:
I'd have thought they'd have released it by now if they were going to. That said, Pink has the love of the P****fork cru, so who knows what the current fashionista status will result in. I was lucky enough to get a stack of their albums for a decent price when I saw them the first time.
shakahislop
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almost 20 years since i last saw them, saw them at the lincoln center at the weekend. it makes sense to see them in an institutional setting coz they're institutionalized now. hard to see it as exciting. i knew exactly what to expect coz so far as i can tell they've been doing the same thing for all that time. it's a travelling art installation. i spent some time escaping the volume coz even with good earplugs in you could feel the damage accumulating by the minute. but you couldn't totally escape. the corridors were full of the sound. the toilets were full of the sound. the walls of the theatre couldn't contain it.
shakahislop
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it's thrilling to be around that kind of volume. the girl in front of me jumped when they started. i think it's the loudest sound i've heard
wektor
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that's strange, I've seen them twice: once at fabric where the pa just completely flattened out the fakin thing, once at rewire last spring.
in both I expected extreme volume, as legends are told, but you really gotta stand right in front of the stage to get properly blasted with the overtones etc. or am i just deaf like all the other kids these days?
in both I expected extreme volume, as legends are told, but you really gotta stand right in front of the stage to get properly blasted with the overtones etc. or am i just deaf like all the other kids these days?
shakahislop
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i was sat literally right at the back, the lincoln center is pretty big, and you could feel the air being pushed out of the amps. it was shaking bits of my body. they didn't use the PA i think, it was just the stacks that they put in a semi-circle around them on stage. coz it was $5 for a ticket and coz it was at the lincoln center, which is basically an old people's home, so an unsuspecting crowd, some people started leaving after five minutes. the girl next to me had her fingers shoved in her ears. it was violent to some extent, people being subjected to something. i took my earplugs out for about a minute and it was absolutely glorious