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SORRY FOR LAUGHING (GORDON H. WHITLOW - MARTYN BATES - EDWARD KA-SPEL) - See It Alone

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Klanggalerie gg358 Release Year: 2021 Note: incredible project with three of our all time artists involved: WILLIAM SHARP ( BIOTA), MARTYN BATES (EYELESS IN GAZA) and EDWARD KA-SPEL (LEGENDARY PINK DOTS), plus more guest musicians - on 12 tracks they create minimal melancholic "folk" songs based on synth piano & organ, accordeon, violin, with some nice experimental sound effects and tricks, and often vocals.. - "This album is a gift that moves for its simplicity and intimacy" [LOOP] Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info "Sorry For Laughing is a project by Gordon H. Whitlow who is also a member of legendary US avantgarde collective Biota, formerly Mnemonists or Mnemonist Orchestra. Their music is a mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise, industrial, avant-garde, songwriting and free jazz. Their releases were published by their own self-produced label Dys between 1981 and 1986. By 1985 the group had split off into separate groups for visual and audio work. From that time, Mnemonists operated only as a visual arts collective while the musical activity was taken over by a new group called Biota that featured a few of the musicians involved with Mnemonists as well as many new members. In 1986, Gordon H. Whitlow released a cassette under the name Sorry For Laughing: 'The compositions stem from my beginning days with the avant-garde recording ensemble Biota, shortly after completion of the Bellowing Room LP.' The album was re-issued on CD by Klanggalerie in 2018 and is still available. Now, Gordon reactivated the project and changed it from a solo effort into a new supergroup: he is joined on See It Alone by Edward Ka-Spel of Legendary Pink Dots fame, and Martyn Bates of Eyeless In Gaza. Also contributing is Denver guitarist Janet Feder and Patrick Q. Wright, Kiyoharu Kuwayama and Nigel Whitlow. Together, these musicians created an exceptional album of tender music where stunningly beautiful vocals float around ambient soundscapes and minimal classical music." "This is Gordon H. Whitlow’s project, who has a long discography in his more than 30 years of musical career, he is also a member of the legendary American avant-garde collective Biota. For “See It Alone”, two renowned artists such as Edward Ka-Spel from Legendary Pink Dots and Martyn Bates from Eyeless In Gaza join forces, two fundamental groups of psychedelic, post-punk and avant-garde music. In this intimate album with bucolic passages that flirts with folk, along with violin, organ and field recordings arrangements. The interpretation of the songs is in a melancholic and sober tone. When Bates sings like a crooner I can't help but remember the beautiful songs from Eyeless In Gaza that alternate with Ka-Spel's velvety voice. This album is a gift that moves for its simplicity and intimacy that are found in gems such as “Obsolesce”, “Seven Stormy Oceans”, “Anti-Hymn” and “Fate Stars”. [Guillermo Escudero / LOOP]