ACID PERM
Edition of 100 Tapes on Nihilistic Orbs (NO 05)
01 May 2012
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songs performed on self-made instruments
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Sarah Byrne (vox, percussion)
Alex Cuffe (speaker box bass, strings)
Ross Manning (string panels)
Joel Stern (leg-horn, electronics)
Alex Cuffe (speaker box bass, strings)
Ross Manning (string panels)
Joel Stern (leg-horn, electronics)
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SIDE A
ACID PERM
ACID PERM
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SIDE B
DEADSHIT SALON
DEADSHIT SALON
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Brand new extended jams from this amazing Australian combo who use invented instruments and free female vocals to generate an alien future/primitive folk/drone hybrid: released in an edition of only 100 copies Acid Perm’s A side comes over like Moondog’s honking geese orchestra meets Roscoe Mitchell’s classic Nonaah with Sarah Byrne’s vocals touching on the transcendental tongue of Meredith Monk before the whole deal starts to levitate with Ornette style string-sawing. The flip takes the tsugaru shamisen style and bolsters it with wild flashes of electricity and a rolling peg-leg stomp that comes over like the Orimo clan plays early SME. Totally singular and highly recommended.
David Keenan – Volcanic Tongue
David Keenan – Volcanic Tongue
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Scum Mecca on Crawlspace
Closely following an excellent LP on Negative Guest List earlier in the year, Acid Perm is something of a red herring on the otherwise patently electronic-geared Nihilistic Orbs label, run by Chrome Dome’s Shaun South. The title-track of this cassette features what is for me the most interesting quality of Sky Needle; almost total incomprehensibility of how the music is being created. At once it is both organic and electronic, the only distinct instrument used being drums. Otherwise, the rest of its components are difficult to determine. What is certain is that it possesses a purely unprecedented and psychedelic quality. The song is bookended by clapping, indication of its recording in a live setting followed by a brief and blurred reprise. ‘Deadshits Salon’ possesses a similar sickening lurch, albeit with Sarah Byrne’s verbal jabber as the prevalent sound employed, a lethargic male voice subtly weaving underneath and around it. To be perfectly honest, I prefer Sky Needle as an instrumental unit. Their mechanisms almost struggle at times to maintain synchronicity, the very fact that they do is what keeps me interested and it is in this potential collapse that Sky Needle’s strength lies.
Closely following an excellent LP on Negative Guest List earlier in the year, Acid Perm is something of a red herring on the otherwise patently electronic-geared Nihilistic Orbs label, run by Chrome Dome’s Shaun South. The title-track of this cassette features what is for me the most interesting quality of Sky Needle; almost total incomprehensibility of how the music is being created. At once it is both organic and electronic, the only distinct instrument used being drums. Otherwise, the rest of its components are difficult to determine. What is certain is that it possesses a purely unprecedented and psychedelic quality. The song is bookended by clapping, indication of its recording in a live setting followed by a brief and blurred reprise. ‘Deadshits Salon’ possesses a similar sickening lurch, albeit with Sarah Byrne’s verbal jabber as the prevalent sound employed, a lethargic male voice subtly weaving underneath and around it. To be perfectly honest, I prefer Sky Needle as an instrumental unit. Their mechanisms almost struggle at times to maintain synchronicity, the very fact that they do is what keeps me interested and it is in this potential collapse that Sky Needle’s strength lies.