The most amazing, diverse and powerful album in the Year One – a wide- screen soundscapes familiar from spreading Draw transmission icon, hip-hop interlude BLEEPY variation and miniature – absolutely necessary It is.

Early 2000s and 1992, from folk singer , so in lo-fi avant-garde performer of traditional and Bugskull (aka Shonban) is Portland ( Oregon independent India’s finest) for selection of highly acclaimed columns of the work has been released.

Since then, Growing experimental and small scene NorthWest founder of America ‘s cities , so concentrated, but his name was circulating among them whisper that they are familiar.

His body of work by John Cage, from Syd Barrett attracted comparisons to everyone. And, hang with friends in Portland who contemporaries Pavement or Elliott Smith than like, the indie put him far outside the sound.

Their sound, his work draw icon, free jazz and the Dadaist psychedelic covers Derrick works. And new album “Communication”, heard earlier this year we record the most diverse, original and was expected to meet large. Strong melodic identity and the balance is lost in the texture elements are linked by a tendency towards contrast to the surface.

This album (the most in nearly 10 years) is a relaxing one of those, beat with psychedelic is divided between the pastoral environment and all-consuming. And appeal to a wide range of tastes and sensations.

Drive the beat with a first side, we “Exposed Wires” or ” Floppy Drive “in fancy lower the base line, J Dilla can hear an echo of.

However, heterogeneity is prepared with quality organic loose melody , and, “High Steppin’II” on the initial distortion of the Aphex Twin remind tape gentle bite, or, Hauntology pioneer Position Normal modified by the “Italy of Ra.H” the space of a circuit.

On the second, the title track strings , “Life On Earth “immediately for Edward Williams of the Chamber reminds. Stars Of The Lid. However, lo-fi in miniature, “Pondlife” hiss-texture on a dive into the illusion of field recordings and subtle voice, “What’s That Light” a gentle acoustic guitar before the end of happiness, Stars Of The Lid on played.

At least one far artists sound like the work area with a range of sounds on display here will be surprised, guitar , calimba, and the organ several contributions in aside, it’s modern music The invention of characters is very intriguing one. Unbelievable.

I imagine a bunch of violins and bowed double basses, like 40.  For the verse they are played mostly drone, but heavy on the vibrato and harmonics, maybe 2 or 3 parts. It would pick up a little for the chorus, melodic, but not lush (think John Cale rather than Spiritualized).

The ending could go in a couple of directions- either ascending pitch a la Day in the Life or Ligetti (not positive about that reference)..

…. or it could go all atonal/microtonal, still very drone, but more intense- distorted & harmonic.

Jimmy’s awesome drumming keeps everything moving.

Just an idea, might be mush in practice.

The Kraak festival in Belgium on March 6th

March 10th in Gent, Belgium

March 11th @Loppen in the free city of Christiania, Copenhagen.

Drop Sean a line if you want even more details

Side 1:

Horsey – Provider

Refrigerator – Running Along

Speed Bumps – Impending

New Bad Things – Forecast

Loren Mazzacane – Out Alone

Blah Blah Blah – American Tourist 1 & 2

Side 2

Shoeface – The longest day

Plastic Horn Devil – Aging Slab

Jupiteria – Talk like kids

Bugskull – It’s gonna be pretty angular

Paste – Shell Oil

Junket – 4 Minutes too long

In Portland’s hallowed history of rock, Bugskull is a shadowy influence. Born in 1991 as the bedroom four-track project of Sean Byrne, by the mid-90s the band had evolved into a three-piece rock ensemble—Byrne on guitar and vocals, Brendan Bell on bass, and James Yu on drums—weaving a spacy spell for the lucky attendees of their live shows, and releasing a handful of utterly unique albums incorporating elements of electronic music, raga, and alternately plaintive and poppy vocal work. Called Portland’s “sleeping giants” by Snipehunt magazine, the band reforms for an evening of soulful inner space travel. Be there when the giants awaken.

After landing its first album-length cassette Subversives in the Midst (Shrimper, 1992), Bugskull produced a slew of self-released cassettes and then a 10-inch self-titled EP (Quixotic, 1993). The band continued to redefine lo-fi experimentalism with Phantasies and Senseitions (Road Cone, 1994), Crock: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Pop Secret, 1995), and Snakland (Scratch, 1995). Byrne continued producing work after the band’s dissolution in 1996, including Distracted Snowflake Volume One (Pop Secret, 1997), Distracted Snowflake Volume Two (Scratch, 1997), and Bugskull vs. The Big White Cloud (Scratch, 2002). Communication (Digitalis Recordings) will be released Fall 2009.

The performance is accompanied by a live mix of projected images by Portland filmmaker Steve Doughton’s collection of original and found films.

Bugskull breathe ingenuity like the rest of us mortals inhale oxygen.

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