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FJ013: This live set from 2018 makes me think of submerged liquid worlds full of strange floating life forms and/or the vast inner dimensions of some futuristic hybrid consciousness, both organic and synthetic (think analogue, not digital). You might think something else and that’s ok, there’s plenty of room here for the imagination to wander. The occasion was an improvised music mini-festival called Powered By Steam that seemed to be all about grouping unlikely combinations of artists together and hearing what happened next. Instrument inventor-builder and noisician Rod Cooper (Klunk, Holy Boner, Cooper Engineering Noise Orchestra) plays one of his own creations called the ‘upright array’, a difficult to describe metallophone that’s responsible for the chiming percussive tones heard throughout. Carla Oliver, known for the moody subterranean ambience of her solo act Badskin, provides echoing guitar and pedal noise that helps to submerge everything in liquid or send it all drifting through inner space. Electronic musician and composer Justin Ashworth (Glasfrosch, Little Songs of the Mutilated) contributes a variety of animate noises via ‘bio-data sonification’, turning the electrical impulses of living organisms – in this case house plants – into audible sounds that he manipulates via modular synth. There are also moments when it’s hard to tell who’s doing what and that’s always a good thing in free improv. As a whole the recording has an almost dub-like sense of depth, ebbing and flowing between more abstract passages and others that sound like fourth world ethnographic forgeries… or maybe that should be fifth world. - Tim P.


More info about the artists:
rodcooper.bandcamp.com/music
en-gb.facebook.com/pg/badskinbadskin/about/
justinashworthmusic.blogspot.com

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released August 24, 2019

Carla Oliver: guitar, pedals.
Rod Cooper: upright array.
Justin Ashworth: house plants, midi sprout, modular synth.

Recorded live during Powered By Steam Festival in March 2018 at Aeso Studio in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The venue is now called The Burrow and is still run by the same excellent people.

Mastering and artwork by Justin Ashworth

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Frustration Jazz Hobart, Australia

Improvised, exploratory & otherwise out. Small editions there-of. Started in Naarm/Melbourne and based in nipaluna/Hobart since 2018. Not a jazz label. Not afraid of contradiction.

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