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VEYOU
- Garden 10" lathe
VEYOU's
second release finds them ?!ing it up again in
Bloomington,
Illinois. A-side in mono, B-side in stereo.
Basementronics
by Nick Hoffman and Stephen Holliger.
30
copies
mp3
Released
December 2009
OUT
OF PRINT
REVIEWS:
Auxiliary Out (Drew Dahle)
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010
Veyou - Garden [Pilgrim Talk]
Garden
is a ten incher by Veyou, the duo of Hoffman and Stephen Holliger (Swim
Ignorant Fire). With their tape on Scissor Death being my favorite of
Hoffman-related projects I was excited to hear more. There's no
shortage of weirdness on here. "Side A" is lethargic basement crawl,
tentative frequencies getting bullied, random percussive noises, with
an occasional synth stab or cymbal swell. The only thing that remains
constant is an uneasy creaking drone over which all the other sounds do
their jig. There's an attempt at melody in the second half with a
repeated keyboard line but for the most part the duo is taking their
cues from the great unknown. The last few minutes bring a steady drum
beat (that sounds a tad like someone dribbling a basketball) and
groaning electronics. Quivering synths follow and at some point the
whole piece seems to be slowed a little causing me to wonder what sort
of post-production process this went through. "Side B" begins with a
weird hollow drumbeat that seemed to skip a lot causing me to check for
defects but nope, no unintentional locked grooves just a weird
pastiched drumbeat. There's a few more stitched together sections, well
in fact there's a lot more. Where the first side seemed to be a more or
less live take, this second side is an arranging of all sorts of random
recordings making it hard to keep a handle on. There's squirmy feedback
cutting straight to full bodied drones, bits of random percussion
drifting in and out. Some parts are pretty, some are silent, some
feature some vague synth/organ action. It's odd to say the least. The
capper is it launches into a weird keyboard demo at the end and then
proceeds to scramble it. It certainly puts you in a zone, what or where
that zone is still remains a mystery. I'm really not sure what to call
this.
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