listen to the Gnawed's bleak industrial noise track here:
gnawed.bandcamp.com/track/rust-and-bone
Spit and Cuss – spitandcuss # 05
Limited Edition CDr edition of 20
Limited Edition Cassette, C56 edition of 50
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review by jliat:
TAKLAMAKAN/GNAWED PARALYSIS – RUST AND BONE (CDR by Spit & Cuss)
Taklamakan = Harold Gojani from Croatia 28 minutes of slowly fading in what is termed brown noise which is on the blog or somewhere is termed HWN. Gnawed- delicate gongs hanging in static silence which fades into white noise- each mirroring the form!. There is a type of conflation by which in mathematics a sequence of non-equations ends up proving that 1=0. Its everywhere, a recent example operating at multiple levels in a book entitled Noise & Capitalism where in the main neither is discussed and meanings are again and again replaced with whatever is convenient. A superb example is “Genre is Obsolete” by Ray Brassier – the article seems to wish to adulate two neo-fluxus performers – under the heading noise, though neither considers themselves to be noise. So the definition is shifted to include neo-punk/pop antics and then the conclusion is asserted that noise is just as comodifiable as anything else. Well a colander is a saucepan if you fill in the holes and attach a handle.
Elsewhere Edwin PrA©vost claims that all music save religious is commercial, discounting the illegality of downloads- which of course might be illegal in his art-sphere but free and open downloading, production at a loss or to swap, is apparent with many who make noise. The very simplicity and anti-elitistism serves as such. What has this to do with the above, simply put if noise is not conflated it is the very thing the sad Marxists want – a non comodifiable artform, but unfortunately the above miss the point by assuming anything can be called noise. To put it even more bluntly – a slow fade = form, bells = sonority. Both are stuff that’s possible to flog – unlike noise as dead horse. And to a perceived objection- to buy noise is likewise to indulge in an ironic (anti) capitalist act..(jliat)
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released August 16, 2009