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HAMMER, JOSEPH - Dynasty Suites

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Melon Expander 002 Release Year: 2003 Note: from SOLID EYE Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Erinnert sich noch jemand an SOLID EYE, die grandiosen Geräuschmusikimprovisateure aus L.A. ? JOSEPH HAMMER war nicht nur Mitglied von SOLID EYE, sondern auch bei der legendären LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY oder STEAMING COILS. Hier nun überrascht er mit seiner ersten solo-CD, zwei live-Mitschnitte von „real-time tape loop manipulations“, wo er ähnlich wie PEOPLE LIKE US, BIG CITY ORCHESTRA oder ERIC M äußerst bizarre atmosphärische Klangcollagen erstellt. The ex-member of SOLID EYE with a stunning solo-album, featuring two live-recordings from his tape loop manipulations, where he creates bizarre atmospheric collages of a deeper beauty. “ Joseph has kept busy creating cerebral sounds in Los Angeles for over 20 years using the tape loop as his main voice. His first major project, Points of Friction (with Damian Bisciglia, Kenny Ryman and Tim Alexander) began in 1980 with the intention of creating a surreal transportational environment via unidentifiable sounds fused with abstract visual projections. In the mid 80's he worked with LAFMS alumni Rick Potts to form Dinosaurs With Horns. Equally as tweaked as P.O.F., but with a different busier feel. Almost a pop-song structure with a stumbling-down-the-stairs pace. This led to the formation of Solid Eye in the early 90's (Hammer, Potts, and Steve Thomsen), a much more ether-like, hallucinatory voyage which is still active today. "Dynasty Suites" is Joseph's first solo release. In this he utilizes similar magnetic tape manipulation techniques as in Solid Eye, but it clearly has an instant composition feel as he is recording onto one tape loop in real time. Very organically cerebral, it takes many listens to realize just what the heck is going on here. Unfolding as if the listener was on a gravity-free balloon animal ride through a shape-shifting landscape. Dynasty Suites' pieces were 2 separate live performances recorded in 2001 over the airwaves of KLXU radio in Los Angeles. 51 minutes.” [press release]