Monday, October 25, 2010

Ensemble Economique - Psychical [Not Not Fun, 2010]

A1. Hail (08:27)
A2. Red For The Sun (03:55)
A3. Forever Eyes (04:02)
A4. Monsoon Clouds (03:49)

B1. Shacks Built From Plyboard (04:35)
B2. Psychical (02:50)
B3. Real Things (05:14)
B4. Bonfires (07:35)



'Brian Pyle is well-known for his enterprising shamanism as one half of Nor Cal improv gurus Starving Weirdos but when off-roading in his Ensemble Economique buggy he seems to stumble onto even weirder psychogenic artifacts. "Psychical" is Pyle’s freshest full-length and easily his most drugged and dense. Thick, humid banks of synth-fog descend over looped cult hand-drum patterns, strangely panned waves of brainwash tones, and snippets of third world voices mumbling about blood and marijuana. As the name half-jokingly implies, EE is 100% Pyle’s creation intrument-wise, although his wife Phoenix does intone some possessed doom poetry over the crushing war drums of “Forever Eyes” and Tom Carter [of Charalambides] cameos with some searing white light guitar shrapnel on the creep-out raga of “Real Things.” All the pieces dissolve into one another, giving "Psychical" a dark-trip soundtrack mood, an upriver lost soul convoy into hostile off-radar territories, a thousand spectral voices misting down like blackening monsoon clouds. A total haunter, and an LP we’ve been spinning many midnights around NNF HQ. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with occult VHS artwork by Manda Beth Brown'. - NNF

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here's the other aural staple of late from the self same taste maker extroardinheirs at en en eff, & eat's doowoozie. pass the sizzurp, i think i'm zowie. actually it reminded of a synthier asynchronic era aboombong gettin moonburned glands at rubberneck pagoda. my baby bro just made a stencil of this cover art & intends to follow these weirds, slanging bootleg tease in the parquenlot. 320 trips!

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