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David Coulter - Review
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The Wire...a thrilling acoustic intimacy reminiscent of Japan's Cinorama…" The highlight of this month's column is the debut solo release from ex-Pogues and Test Dept multi-instrumentalist David Coulter...It has a thrilling acoustic intimacy reminiscent of Japan's Cinorama, and a similar exacting concern with coaxing evocative new textures out of instruments familiar and strange... Loosely receptive and inventive playing, uncluttered spaciousness, and the lack of rhetorical baggage makes this release a masterpiece of miniaturised beauty."...
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Calla - Review
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Side-lineI am in awe of the romantic, desolate ambience…… of the familiar instrumentation as embraced by the electronic cadences that coarse underneath the surface. Calla bask in the sound of the day after tomorrow: it's hot and weary and there is nothing left to do but listen to the world as it disintegrates?and give in to the inevitable....
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Calla - Review
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Gil Gershman - Motion"David Lynch Sound System."With its uneasiest currents often just subjacent to the surface of the music, Calla beautifully captures the secret subversions and warped normality that inform every frame of the cult director's filmography?Something for the closet romantics who have already been swept away with Godspeed You Black Emperor! and are eager to board another emotional roller coaster....
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Calla - Review
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Tom Ridge - The Wirestartling collection of low-end Industrial blues fed through a grainy veil of electronics.Combining brittle rockabilly guitar, wheezing machine noise, bursts of static and heavy bass programming, Calla compress different musical elements together, rub them up abrasively against one another and force them into new, unfamiliar shapes....
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Michael Gira interview
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FROM QRD QUARTERLYI guess pretty much everyone that's ever read an issue of QRD knows that Michael Gira is essentially the artist I admire most.I guess he's most famous for his band Swans, but he also writes & paints & he has two new musical projects called The Angels of Light & The Bodylovers. I was supposed to do this interview before a show, but there wasn't time so this interview ended up being conducted by mail; which maybe makes it feel a little more formal & less in depth than a normal QRD interview.... QRD -- would you say Swans accomplished what you wanted it to & what did you want it to? Michael -- I never had a concept I wanted to elucidate, just a sound I wanted to hear at a particular time & a series of images or stories I was obsessed with over the years (always changing); so I'd say it did accomplish what I wanted, which was to work. QRD -- how important do you think personal honesty is in art? Michael -- There are different types of honesty. Probably the most enduring is to excise comfort or habit. QRD -- which artform (music/visual/words)......