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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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ARTIST: SAVAGE REPUBLIC
TITLE: Sword Figher - Taranto!!!
LABEL: A SILENT PLACE
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| DESCRIPTION: Limited edition including an insert. Very special package with die-cut cover with silk-screened printings designed by Andrea Scarfone (Skarfo/Julie's Haircut). First 200 hand-numbered copies comes is solid RED vinyl.
Hailing from the Los Angeles underground of the 1980s, Savage Republic forged an astonishing reputation for themselves with their legendary performances. Their brand of ritualistically tribal exhibitions blurred the boundaries of Post-Punk and Industrial music. Their music incorporates minimalist bass rumbles, exotic and/or militaristic drumming, Arabic melodies, primal chants and even a bit of surf guitar. Now A Silent Place is honoured to release a limited vinyl 7" single with two amazing exclusive tracks recorded expressly for this release after '1938' cd album release on Neurot Recordings! Both tracks are with SR distinguishing elements: tribal drumming, hypnotic and raga-like guitar lines with pulsating bass, Post-Punk and Industrial music with a sort of exotic atmosphere. |
| ITEM NUMBER: 10911 |
FORMAT: 7” |
PRICE: $14.69 |
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ARTIST: MAEROR TRI
TITLE: Yearning For The Secret(s) Of Nature
LABEL: EE TAPES
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| DESCRIPTION: Recently I was looking at Discogs to look for some Maeror Tri information. It struck me that there
was quite a lot re-released but not everything, as I probably expected. And now, a little later, this
rolls into my box, and I am delighted, as this was one of those things that I didn't get when they
came out. 'Yearning For The Secret(s) Of Nature' was originally released as a cassette only on
Fool's Paradise, and might be one of the first releases of Maeror Tri outside their native Germany.
It's dedicated to nature and has two tracks of around thirty minutes, the a and b side of the
former cassette release. The title track comes second and its the better of the two pieces.
'Timeless Transcencion', which opens up here, is Maeror Tri as a pretty chaotic affair and not the
refined ambient industrial troupe you may recall them, the forebarers of Troum. Occasionally this
piece has nice moments, but its all a bit distorted(without being true noise of course), of various
pieces recorded inrehearsal stuck together. But the title track does the (Maeror Tri) trick: a fine
blend of processed guitars, field recordings, and god knows what else they were using at that
time (I seem to remember, voices, oil drums and accordion also). Here too things can get
'louder', but throughout it seems to fit the right tension curve Maeror Tri were aiming for. This is
the 'true' Maeror Tri sound, the one we love so much and which found its way into Troum later
on. Fans of Troum should not miss out on this, and of course Maeror Tri completists shouldn't
either. (2009 – F. de Waard - Vital Weekly) 300 copies
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| ITEM NUMBER: 10910 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $17.39 |
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