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THEME & JEAN-HERVE PERON & ZSOLT SORES - Poison is (not) the Word

Format: mLP Label & Cat.Number: Lumberton Trading Company LUMB018 Release Year: 2012 Note: studio collaborations by THEME (duo with ex SPLINTERED-members) with JEAN-HERVE PERON (singer of FAUST) and ZSOLT SORES; pure psychedelic experimentalism, improvised & freaky... rec. Sept. 2011 in Budapest, lim 400 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info "In early September 2011, Theme, the Poland/UK-based group centred around Lumberton Trading Company’s very own Richard Johnson (ex-Splintered, Husk, etc.) and Stuart Carter (ex-Splintered, The Fields Of Hay, ex-Heroin, etc.), went into a Budapest studio with their good friends Zsolt Sörés and Jean-herve Peron (a.ka. Art-Errorist of influential German group, Faust) for two days. Although some basic ideas had been worked on and discussed prior to this meeting, the main objective was to record a side-long piece of music that used one of these ideas as a starting point to what would otherwise essentially amount to a collaborative improvisation with Zsolt, plus further collaborative pieces for the other side of the record both involving also Jean-herve Peron and being completely of the moment. The main piece, entitled ‘Poison Is (Not) The Word’, pays witness to Theme branching into territory probably closer to their work as Splintered (i.e., their Moraine LP from 1996, which featured Jim O’Rourke source material on one side). Stretching over 24 minutes in length, it remains anchored to Theme’s tendency for psychedelic drones and textures whilst Zsolt applies improvised electronics and viola to them and words are either chanted or spat out. A saxophone, added by Zsolt Varga, then completes the sprawling ‘brink-of-chaos’ feel perfectly. On the other side are two pieces also spanning over 20 minutes between them. The first, ‘Baszd meg az apád!’ (which translates as ‘Fuck Your Father’ from Hungarian), begins misleadingly as a mass of atmospheric swirls, cavaquinho plucking, textures, psalterion, and sax until Jean-herve cuts in with some shouted vocals as effective as they are brief. The second, ‘Puszta Psycho’, is built around a tempered refrain of cavaquinho string picking led by Jean-herve then welded to subtle touches of hissing electronics, psalterion, space clatter, sax blasts (courtesy of Varga), subtle textural plumes, indiscernible knocking and scrunching sounds, Jean-herve’s vocals and buried chanting by Richard Johnson. This MLP represents the first of two vinyl releases that document the time these artists all recorded and played live together over a period of 10 days. The second release will be a limited edition 7” on LTCo sister label, Fourth Dimension. It is hoped another tour by Theme, Jhp-Art Errorist and Zsolt will take place in October or November 2012." [label info] www.lumberton-trading.com