Catch
23 Recording's oldest resident project, borne out of Paul
Cowling & Jarrod Rone's utter disillusionment with
the traditional forms of generic musical expression with
which they had been involved for over a decade. A jury-rigged
collision of free electric guitar, shortwave radio, analogue
synth, and effects, recorded on-the-fly on primitive 'radio-shack'
equipment. Quality early lo-fi experimentalism gradually
develops into a more nuanced, higher fidelity sound over
the six releases.
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TFH
/ RCN 'Hell Life' C23CDR001
Two long improv pieces based around synth drone, shortwave
radio and guitar, recorded back in January '98.
TFH
/ RCN 'Places of Safety' C23CDR002
The second TFH excursion recorded between Sept and Nov
'98 sees this duo using field recordings and found sounds
in a series of location contemplations that range from
the 'ambient' to the 'harsh'. Prevously on cassette.
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FOR HADES '13.10.01' C23CDR013
Stark guitar and shortwave improvisation from 2001. (Wallet
package.)
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FOR HADES 'Black Piano' C23CDR014
Though they set out into a bleak and diffuse landscape
of shortwave emissions and general dissonance, TFH find
some kind of coherence and resolution over the course
of this 54 minute improvisation. Good one. (Black and
white wallet package.)
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FOR HADES '16/12/01' C23CDR016
Dispute over cause of death unravels over two long tracks
of 'relatively minimal dissonance'. (Black and white wallet
package.)
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FOR HADES 'The Ghost Writer' C23CDR019
Determinacy, indeterminancy, and plate reverb face off
in this unsettling guitar/ radio /analogue synth /objects
dialogue. (Black and white wallet package.)
