Quarry Tones

General | Nov 2005

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2005-11-23
Complex experimental, deals with samples in a very organic manner as Liz s a trumpet player from Oakland. The treatments are dense, cool, a nice juxtaposition of trumpet and noise, even vocals. Her resume is thick, including Metalux, Zeke Sheck, Crack: WAR, Anthony Braxton, MonoPause, Cecil Taylor.

1) very brief, strange waltz with treated vocals “Welcome”
2) weird percussive loops, then gutteral sounds, like a demon throwing up
3) spooky voices over a semi-tribal feel
4) looped organ with horn melody, sick and dark
5) simple Moog’like tones, then mechanical human voices speak-sing over
6) air raid siren type oscillator along with random sample-hold loops, moog, evolves and progresses, getting louder
7) cool loops, noise, layers of brass keeping a subtle melody
8) FCC at very end, horn solo’ed version of moon river
9) cool looped noise, industrial, turns tribal at end

Recent airplay

A Luminous Can-Can
The Courtesy FlushDec 22, 2009
Mus And Plinus
Emphysema For EmphasisMay 08, 2009
Fanfare The Goad Offal Ages
Memory SelectOct 24, 2008
Palsied Grace
OatmealAug 29, 2008
Palsied Grace
Memory SelectJul 27, 2007
Palsied Grace
Alban Stands ThereJul 24, 2007

Charting

2005-11-27 — 2006-01-29 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 29 1
Jan 8 2
Jan 1 1
Dec 11 2
Dec 4 1

Track listing

1. Neutronium Umpire
2. Mus And Plinus
3. Ye Hawd
4. A Luminous Can-Can
5. Palsied Grace
6. Balm For Baleen Gales
7. Those Whinatheros
8. Hey Judy G.
9. Fanfare The Goad Offal Ages