sábado, 30 de julio de 2011

XXXVIII. Boyd Rice | The Black Album



















  
BOYD RICE
The Black album
©Boyd Rice (Self-Released). US, 1977.


This originally late 1975 recorded, 1977 self released (in a run of eighty six copies), and 1981 (Mute) properly (re) released Black Album (as it was originally known) can hardly be considered a standard long player, but more like something of a bricolage of recorded/isolated/(mis)treated/looped/found sound fragments making for a 43:24" (if you dind't go for the multi speed thing) experience rather than a collection of handy song structures.
Contextually, or historically if you prefer, this is pretty much as out there, exploratory/provocative speaking anyway, as any of them.
The fragmentary and at times drone like frenzy here simultaneously evokes a Hymnen period Karlheinz Stockhausen, a young and riotous John Cale, and of course, his highness Milan Knížák. Not a small feat at all in my book. A very chunky (but not quite) musical artifact.


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