RAMLEH — Too many Miles
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"Dies ist die CD Kollektion, die sämtliche, schon viel zu lange nicht mehr erhältliche RAMLEH Singles vereint. Als Anlass für das Re-Issue gilt das sechsseitige Feature, das RAMLEH neulich im WIRE Magazin gewidmet wurde. Die Geschichte von RAMLEH reicht zurück bis in die 80er Jahre, als sie als Zeitgenossen von WHITEHOUSE den "Power Electronics" frönten. Seitdem hat sich einiges verändert und seit ein paar Jahren firmieren RAMLEH unter dem Banner des Noise Rock, der nicht nur in UK, sondern auch im Rest Europas und in den USA Anhänger um sich scharrt. Tatsächlich erschienen einige der Singles auf dieser Compilation exklusiv in den USA. Das Artwork lehnt sich an das Originalartwork der Singles an und wurde aus der privaten Sammlung von Philip Best zusammengestellt. Seit der letzten RAMLEH Veröffentlichung auf Dirter, der Doppel-CD "Works 3", sind zwei Jahre ins Land gezogen - das gute Stück war direkt nach der Veröffentlichung ausverkauft. www.myspace.com/ramleh "
[label info / Cargo transl.]
"Much has been written here about the recent work of Matthew Bower and his beautiful improv skree in Sunroof (paralleling the massive proliferation of likeminded acts Vibracathedral Orchestra and Birchville Cat Motel); but people often overlook the fact that he began making music in the early '80s as a part of the Broken Flag camp - a loose collective of British power electronics technicians and noise rockers, that recorded under the monikers Skullflower, Total, and Ramleh. While Bower was principally the 'figurehead' of the first two and fellow Broken Flag waver Gary Mundy took hold of Ramleh, most of the recording was done with a revolving door membership. Between Skullflower and Ramleh, the Broken Flag camp had produced a noxious arsenal of sludgy noise rock with grim guitar pyrotechnics, crashing upon pummelling rhythm sections, village-idiot basslines and thuggish
percussive blasts. These days, the awe-inspiring Skullflower albums Form Destroyer and Birthdeath are virtually extinct (even, the cd compendium Ruins is impossible to find); but fortunately, the old Ramleh stuff is finally available again via this collection of singles. Hopefully this will help keep Broken Flag from dissappearing in the dustbins of musical history.
The formulas for Ramleh (and Skullflower for that matter) were incredibly simple: hammer out a basic rhythm as heavy and as loud as
possible, then layer on the angriest and most dissonant blasts of post- Blue Cheer psychedelic freaks outs. Throughout the '80s, Ramleh and Skullflower were pigeonholed as a part of Industrial Culture - due to their power electronics side projects and associations with Whitehouse; yet as Too Many Miles now indicates, this work has much more parallels with the explosive dirges of Neurosis or the incendiary stoner rock of Boris. Really fantastic stuff." [Aquarius Rec.]
www.dirter.co.uk
[label info / Cargo transl.]
"Much has been written here about the recent work of Matthew Bower and his beautiful improv skree in Sunroof (paralleling the massive proliferation of likeminded acts Vibracathedral Orchestra and Birchville Cat Motel); but people often overlook the fact that he began making music in the early '80s as a part of the Broken Flag camp - a loose collective of British power electronics technicians and noise rockers, that recorded under the monikers Skullflower, Total, and Ramleh. While Bower was principally the 'figurehead' of the first two and fellow Broken Flag waver Gary Mundy took hold of Ramleh, most of the recording was done with a revolving door membership. Between Skullflower and Ramleh, the Broken Flag camp had produced a noxious arsenal of sludgy noise rock with grim guitar pyrotechnics, crashing upon pummelling rhythm sections, village-idiot basslines and thuggish
percussive blasts. These days, the awe-inspiring Skullflower albums Form Destroyer and Birthdeath are virtually extinct (even, the cd compendium Ruins is impossible to find); but fortunately, the old Ramleh stuff is finally available again via this collection of singles. Hopefully this will help keep Broken Flag from dissappearing in the dustbins of musical history.
The formulas for Ramleh (and Skullflower for that matter) were incredibly simple: hammer out a basic rhythm as heavy and as loud as
possible, then layer on the angriest and most dissonant blasts of post- Blue Cheer psychedelic freaks outs. Throughout the '80s, Ramleh and Skullflower were pigeonholed as a part of Industrial Culture - due to their power electronics side projects and associations with Whitehouse; yet as Too Many Miles now indicates, this work has much more parallels with the explosive dirges of Neurosis or the incendiary stoner rock of Boris. Really fantastic stuff." [Aquarius Rec.]
www.dirter.co.uk