Friday 28 October 2022

New Release: Brutalust - The Waste Land (CVC025) Limited-Edition Cassette & Digital Download

 


Brutalust
The Waste Land
(CVC025)
Limited-Edition cassette & digital download



Crow Versus Crow is honoured to present The Waste Land, the fourth body of sonic exploration from Brutalust, the Huddersfield, West Yorkshire-based duo of Maria Sappho (USA) and Colin Frank (CAN).

We made noise that day, and this was what was most important. Putting forth sound with intermittent interjections. A heap of broken images.

These seven pieces are composed primarily for piano and percussion, accompanied by musical saw, theremin, synthesizers, and voice, and layered with distortion and live electronic manipulations.

Bricolage, in essence, layers of references to high Modernist poetry, masterful works of contemporary solo piano, and esoteric philosophies, shift within expansive juxtapositions of harsh discordance, delicate contrapuntal melody, structured rhythmic pattern, and open, wild improvisation, to form tactile, textural whorls of episodic flux.

From deconstructing Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya’s 6th Piano Sonata, to mangling doctrines that prize verifiable statements and ego-motivated pleasure, The Waste Land articulates ideas of struggle with saturation, order, and clarity.

...long after time had ceased to be noticed… we shared what we had found and then lost


The Waste Land is released as a Limited Edition of 50 hand-numbered, professionally dubbed, white shell cassettes, with full colour artwork by Andrew Wild, housed in a white-backed clear case, and digital download. 

Tape / £7
Download / Name Your Price

Available now from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

 

As always with Crow Versus Crow releases, digital downloads are set at 'Name Your Price'. Please pay what you feel this record is worth, or what you can afford. All digital sales are split 50/50 between the artist and Crow Versus Crow. If you can't afford to pay anything for this record, please download it at no cost to yourself and just dig those golden sounds!



Friday 6 May 2022

New Release: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson - Nuncio Ref! (CVC024) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download




Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
Nuncio Ref!
(CVC024)
Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download


Crow Versus Crow is honoured to present the debuttttttttttt///tttxxxxyryttzzkrr///////////////xxtNuncio Ref!

First-baked tape works of one Sophie Sleigh-Johnson.

A collection of tele-vision canticles and psychic reportage from the bleary shores of Southend, featuring hotly anticipated fragments from the unearthed transcript of Leonard Rossiter’s lost Mystery Play.

As Rogation Ceremonies became obligatory again, the main technical problem was Bishop Ooze tracing time on damp walls: so, might these same tracks yet index the whereabouts of Mr. Prance, DJ?

And lo, from the rumblings of this grim chorale, you’ll get your fair share of the Reel Artikel, as much an inflammatory Kelp Pit Synod as the apostate’s mandate to walk in Big News.

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ble as a limited edition of 50 cassettes and digital download via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp.

Tape / £6
Download / Name Your Price