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ALLBEE, LIZ - Theseus vs. Luz Alibi

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Resipiscent RSPT035 Release Year: 2010 Note: second solo-album by this female artist and trumpet-player from Oakland CA, hard to describe exciting new experimental music on this new label from San Francisco, lim. 350 in handmade silk-screened box Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 More Info "Liz Allbee's second full length solo unwinds a cozily misanthropic sonic cloth with hidden barbs sure to draw blood. Each track treads further into unnerving terrain: sonar-pings dizzy your ears, unknown nursery rhymes warble from an abandoned tongue, a blur of wings beating in phase consumes all perception until a flat drum slowly summons resplendent horns and vocals rising to dump the entire hell onto its back. Fasten a thread to one finger, but dare to take yourself inside "Theseus vs." Limited edition of 350, packaged in a handmade silk screened box." [label info] www.resipiscent.com "As a women is Liz Allbee, who lives in Berlin and her instruments are trumpet, electronics and voice. You might perhaps jump to the conclusion that Allbee comes from the world of improvisation and that's where she operates. That is only partially true. There is a lot happening on this CD: perhaps somehow, somewhat based in improvisation, but there is so much more, above all: its musical. Sometimes one gets the impression that Allbee wants to play a poptune. I have no idea what her electronics are about but no doubt some form of loopdevice to create rhythms. Perhaps using her voice, perhaps her trumpet, or perhaps there is some rudimentary form of a drum computer. But I think she loops more than just that: also her voice, also her trumpet and thus forms little melodies around she improvises her work. Maybe that seems an odd combination but its one that works surprisingly well. At times a bit noisy, at other times more like serious avant-garde, but always keen to add that (small) pop angle. The tracks are short and to the point. A bit sketch-like perhaps, but due to the variety of approach this is a highly enjoyable and well succeeded hybrid of styles, with Allbee doing something that is surely her own." [FdW, Vital Weekly]