Various Artists
"Behind a Thatched Divider"
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DDCD03 - November
00, CD Format - 56:16
550 Editions - 320 units with a custom thatched divider and hard
paper jacket, 230 with just the jacket.
The Sinuses, The Balky Mule "Stations To" >mp3 The Sinuses, The Scientifics
"My Bulldozer" >mp3 Lillico BUILT Instruments "Hurdy
Gurdy in corrugated aircraft hanger" >mp3 The Sinuses, Piedmont
Sorpid "Goon Runny" >mp3 The Sinuses, Chris Cole "Just need
someone to know that this is me" >mp3 Lillico BUILT Instruments
"Solo Steel" The Sinuses, Ramen "Opalescence"
>mp3 Lillico BUILT Instruments
"Lillico Hill Waltz" The Sinuses, Les Hashishiens "Sin
Against Nature" (Excerpt) >mp3 The Sinuses, Bartoc "Ancient
Burial Ground" >mp3 Nook "Chongo Chingy"
>mp3 The Sinuses
"Behind a thatched
divider" is Dainty Deathy Recordings' official label launching
compilation of artists and sounds from Canada, The United Kingdom
and The USA that Dainty Deathy hopes to focus on in the future.
BATD collects from the bedroom musicologist playing with 4-tracks,
samplers, computers and experimental approaches influenced by
an ever evolving musical environment. Most of the artists here
are displaying personal material first their time. These include:
THE BALKY MULE, THE SCIENTIFICS, LILLICO BUILT INSTRUMENTS PIEDMONT
SORPID, CHRIS COLE, RAMEN, Les HASHISHIENS, BARTOC and NOOK.
Hosted by mock band "THE SINUSES", a group of three
anonymous musicians who never had an intention for their music
nor did they ever have the notion that they were a band, suddenly
find their material edited into short and bizarre musical interludes
leading the listener though this compilation.
The Artists
THE BALKY MULE:
Bristol, UK artist
Sam Jones has spent many hours working with sound and sound devices.
He just cant seem to use a microphone in a traditional sense.
His work as The Balky Mule leads him away from his ongoing duties
with respected Bristol groups Movietone and Crescent and into
his bedroom where he warms up with a cup a tea before defying
the laws of physics in order to record various instruments and
objects. "Stations to" comes from The Balky Mule's
debut self titled CDR release on Sam and his brother's own Archipelago
label.
THE SCIENTIFICS:
A group of machines
and sentients at play in the world of sound. The noise they make
is murky at best. Supervised by Portland, Oregon songwriter Eliot
Rose, The Scientifcs (referring to the various cheesy electronic
gadgetry used to develop his sounds) display pure Lo-fi at its
best. If there wasn't such a machine as the 4-track recorder,
people like Eliot would be hard to hear.
LILLICO BUILT INSTRUMENTS:
Noted for his creativity
in the instruments he builds (why one of them even has a flywheel
from a tape transport to drive its 2 strings - "Hurdy Gurdy
in corrugated aircraft hanger"), Ken J. Lillico is either
busy developing these guitar like contraptions or show casing
them on his hosted radio program in Killaloe, Ontario. Tinged
with a rather bluesy feel, the 3 selections found here all fine
examples of just some of his stringed creations.
PIEDMONT SORPID:
Using ambience conjoined
experimentally with rock-debris, South Slocan, BC native CJ Einar
(Piedmont Sorpid) delivers many delights in what is seemingly
cheeky electronic music trying not to be. No stranger to Dainty
Deathy, CJ has had his 2 CD's (The sugars of the eyes, Estes
places) previously released on the label. "Goon runny"
is a remixed version of "Goon chimes" from the April
2000 release "Estes places ".
CHRIS COLE:
Chris is more commonly
attached to his roles with Bristol, UK groups Movietone and Crescent
before taking it upon himself to invest in his solo interests.
It took him many months to learn his new computer based workstation
and combine it with his many instrumental talents in order to
finally mill out his first completed piece of music "Just
need someone to know that this is me", at which point Dainty
Deathy snatched it up for this compilation.
RAMEN:
Another artist from
the Bristol area who knows that the use of a computer can see
it become very dominating as it takes over from the music's original
intent. As Ramen, Ben O' Leary practices the idea that in keeping
his music clean and clear and through the simple use of a computer
as an editing tool the overall sound effects generated are much
more satisfying.
Les HASHISHIENS:
Working together to
harness the prairie winds rushing through the suburbs of Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Wanti Dhingra (aka Static, aka Craig Allen) and
Hryhory Udod (aka D-Limonene, aka Brad Wilson) combine cheep
gadgets with crafty gimmickry as Les Hashishiens. Eventually
blown far from their homes and each other, Wanti now finds himself
alone with his ideas in Victoria, BC as Hryhory constructs a
musical play space in Nelson, BC. Expect their noise machines
and effects to continue running in new directions along with
Dainty Deathy's help.
BARTOC:
Bartoc's conceptual
summary will do no justice conformed to a brief paragraph on
this page. We therefore unwillingly force you to redirect to
the source of their ideas >Contact
NOOK:
Is the result of Brighton,
UK resident Andrew Clare moving into a flat with thin walls.
Unable to continue with his louder home recording projects he
put his computer to use remixing random guitar outfit 'SMALL
THINGS'. Somewhere along the line the whole thing morphed into
nook. Andrew has been operating just outside of music for over
a decade; playing on both the improv and rock sides of the fence
while working with UK ensembles IM BEING GOOD, SMALL THINGS,
BALD MERMAID, CLARENCE PALMER, THE THIRTEEN GHOSTS (with DEREK
BAILEY & THURSTON MOORE), and a whole host of others. To
aid these many musical efforts he has been running his own INFINITE
CHUG label since 1993.
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