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SET FIRE TO FLAMES - Telegraphs in Negative / Mouths trapped in Static

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Alien8 Recordings ALIENCD89 Release Year: 2003 Note: double digipack with full-colour booklet on art-paper Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 More Info Zweites Album der hochkarätig besetzten Montrealer Grupppe...geräuschhaft-konkretes Material und Improvisationen, field recordings, dann wieder hochmelancholische Streicher-Gitarren-Kompositionen, die jedes Herz erweichen... "Following the critical success of set fire to flames' 2001 album, 'sings reign rebuilder', the 13-piece Montreal-based collective return with an eagerly anticipated follow-up. Forming a double album, 'telegraphs in negative / mouths trapped in static' is a haunted, intense and highly diverse collection of material. Continuously shifting off at tangents, its slow sprawl creeps from heartbreaking guitar melodies to sparse string compositions; concrete flickerings and modified machine-crunch to tranced-out kraut-ish rhythm-pieces; cyclical minimalism to awe-filled drone-spaces; free-flowing improvised skitter and spark to raw location / life recordings. Beautifully played and composed, and far more than merely a follow-up, 'telegraphs...' sees set fire to flames pushing beyond the gains made on that previous effort and forging an increasingly autonomous space for the group..." [from the label description]