EBSK - Secret Highways

Format: mCD-R

Label & Cat.Number: Scarcelight Recordings SLR15

Release Year: 2003

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €5.00

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“EBSK are an improvising duo from Washington DC, with a new release, "Secret Highways/Wobbly" (Scarcelight SLR15), a very goddam original take on contempo basement prog (or some such thing). The instrumentation is Casios, drums, bass guitar, and B flat clarinet. If this suggests some kind of Milo Fine or Flaherty/Colbourne action, the direction that they head in is pretty original. Without the help of beats, they manage to create a newish sounding electronic environment, inside of which events happen which eventually coalesce into something that walks, looks and quacks a whole lot like rock. The crudity of the electronics and the sparseness of certain elements brings to mind such small units as Young Marble Giants or even The Method Actors, but the sounds are of such aesthetics placed inside a strange post-Rock In Opposition Prog continuum, then manhandled by picnic apes. Which is pretty cool, no matter how hard you shake it.” [Byron Coley. The Wire]