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LE SCRAMBLED DEBUTANTE - Art Lessons

Format: CD-R
Label & Cat.Number: Attenuation Circuit ACR 1038
Release Year: 2014
Note: the project of Drone Records artist ALLAN ZANE (aka WYRM) & friends with a crazy 50 min. compositions full of weird found sounds, speeches, object recordings, creating a surrealist collage reminding on the most mind-bending material by NURSE WITH WOUND or BIG CITY ORCHESTRA... lim. 50
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"ACR 1038: CD-R in plastic case and transparent paper sleeve (limited edition 50 copies)

Drawing from archives amassed over the years 1998 to 2013 with various collaborators, Le Scrambled Debutante mastermind Allan Zane has created a 50-minute composition fusing the most disparate material from piano impromptus to unidentifiable noises. This is sonic collage in the full surrealist sense, the acoustic equivalents of umbrella and sewing-machine meeting on the mixing desk to create a uniquely bizarre sonic dreamscape.
This work by Le Scrambled Debutante could truly be called surrealist music. Apparently drawing from spontaneous improvisation with spontaneously found sound objects, this trip gives the impression of letting unconscious impulses drive the sound. It is impossible, for most of the time, to tell what sound sources were used. This truly acousmatic, if lo-fi, approach emphasises the vague, dream-like quality of the sounds. The editing, however, is done with a keen sense of timing and contrast of textures, so we drift from one dream scene into the next before it gets boring (or scary). All in all, this album may be better than most actual dreams.
File under: Sound art" [label info]


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More music by Le Scrambled Debutante, the impromptu band around Allan Zane, also known as Sir Bear Trapper, along with Sid Redlin, Lorelei Erisis, David Abner, Matthew Amundsun and Kimathi Moore. Recently we heard 'Devils In Heavy Syrup' which I quite enjoyed for it's more krauty, spacey, psychedelic character and which seemed less chopped to pieces then the earlier work, 'The White Wormwood Wormhole Album' and it's perhaps due to the nature of their fleeting interests that they return here to the more collage like techniques. I have no idea what it actually is that they are doing here. If I was told they are all behind a turntable and playing records of whatever kind - Star Trek sounds meeting children's records - hand speeding them up and down all the time, I'd believe you. If there is some sort of John Cage inspired play at random putting sounds on a multi-track tape, and then mixing them together, I could equally believe you. If this 'Art Lesson' were the fifty-minute version of
'Revolution Number 9', then this is valid, I'd say; come to think of it, maybe it has something to do with 'The White Album' (me, now, confused). But there is a sense of editing I think, as, upon closer inspection, it's perhaps not as chaotic and in some ways perhaps planned/composed/constructed (damn I think I hear that Beatles thing in here? Am I going insane?), especially towards the end I had this idea. The inspiration from Nurse With Wound is never far away, but then all bit more crude, a bit more lo-fi and even more spontaneous. It took me some time to get into this, but I quite enjoyed it. (FdW)