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File under: Free Improvisation

Bark!

Swing

Label: Matchless Recordings

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Bark! recorded at LMC Sound, London, England on 10th April and 18th of September 1999.

The album includes nine tracks performed by Rex Casswell - electric guitar, Phillip Marks - percussion, Paul Obermayer - electronics.

"A wonderful album of crunch ‘n’ roll, as Manchester drumming -legend Phillip Marks leads Rex Casswell (electric guitar), best known for his tenure in Stock,Hausen & Walkman, and Paul Obermayer (sampler) through some entertaining and very original music. They’ve managed to inject the rhythmic humour of Thelonious Monk into all the abraded textures favoured in post-rock and electronica, vanquishing its tendencies towards Enoesque pretension with ribald physical beats. Casswell is an astonishingly original guitarist, reconstituting the instrument from pick-up to amplifier. His beautifully-judged architectonics provide a cool spritzer to the others’ heat, as well as providing a bridge between the actuality of the drums and the virtuality of the sampler. Obermayer disdains the use of off-the-peg samples which plague much trendy electronica. He uses his sampler to bring tiny sounds into audible range. The resulting timbres are like microscopic slides in the hands of a master surrealist. Swing sans nostalgia achieves electrified materialism. Short track timings add to the decisive feel. Historic!" - Ben Watson

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File under: Free Improvisation
Cat. number: MRCD 41
Year: 2001