Taps – Side Two (Individual Lines)
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Two bad Boston vets making some weird noise that’s all kinds of cool. Brendan Murray does some electronic wandering and Chris Strunk bangs out krauty jazzy foreign beats on his drum kit. Not really sure where the fuck this would get shelved in a record shop, they’ve got some sprawling minimal psych that gets into a killer fuckin groove, hushed ambience where they’re bathed in tape hiss, a semi-IDM that could be played at only the specialest of dance parties, and sonic synth explorations propelled with drum fuel. It’s kinda funky, kinda techno, kinda punk, but totally sparse and just rad as hell, unlike anything else coming outta Boston right now. Dudes know how to keep it fresh. Tapes & digital available from the increasingly awesome local label Individual Lines.
Christopher Glenn – Not So Near, She (Individual Lines)
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Downoad C30 Tape
/minimal space warmth/
/soul gazing & mind clearing/
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Katze – Chomsky (Individual Lines)
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Two of Boston’s coolest cats… dogs, the prepared violin wielding Morgan Evans-Weiler and Noell Dorsey, mostly known from her spectacular vocal fuckery in Jajuno Trio, Beautiful Weekend, Guillermo Sexo, etc, have teamed up for some bizarre shit as Katze, using mostly the voice/violin aesthetic and tweaking things out with various objects & electronics. Although they’ve been playing around town for quite a bit, Berg is their debut and it’s a fucking winner. Like some musique concrète version of X-Files, it’s dark & eerie, making just enough sense to put you at ease while still confusing the fuck out of you. High end shrill, refrigerator whir, mini rain drop static, eye bending drone, and spaced out noise, full of intention, subtle whispers and abrasive freakouts. All around amazing, but the best parts are when it’s just voice & violin, it’s like a match made in avant garde heaven, they work so perfectly together it’s a shame it took so long to happen. Lets just hope it’s not a one-off.
