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CARR, KATE - It was a Time of laboured Metaphores

Format: MC Label & Cat.Number: Helen Scarsdale Agency HMS035 Release Year: 2016 Note: newest work by Australian sound artist and "lucid-dream composer" KATE CARR (who currently runs the FLAMING PINES label in Belfast, Northern Ireland); here she combines various field recordings with instrumental sounds (guitar) in a very dreamlike, almost unconscious way, with very appealing effect.... C-40, lim. 125 professional cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "The field recordist and lucid-dream composer Kate Carr conjures a liminal art, seeking to articulate the remembrances, the concrete fact, and the deliberate exaggerations of detail, all in the pursuit of addressing the human interaction with the environment. Psychology, history, politics, geography, storytelling, fantasy, the notion of the self, and the disintegration of these rigors at their transect all come into play in her ongoing work. She has set herself on path to make these investigations, relocating herself from her native Australia to Northern Ireland, followed by innumerable detours. Hence, It Was A Time Of Laboured Metaphors. This album from Carr intertwines the lugubrious wash of environmental detail with the dissolved songwriting described in the distant past as 'rural psychedelia' rendering an aesthetic in the orbit of :zoviet*france: or as the dub of a dub of a dub abstractions from Dome. For example, a guitar swollen with ethereal blight cycles in soft whirlpools of drone and thrum as the gloom of an irish rainstorm pours down a sewer drain. Electricity proves a nobel tool as well, as she tapes into telephone wires to extract deadtones of unanswered calls. It is as if Carr is peeling back the layers of history to uncover the ghostly stains of human existence at a particular place. The dead may not be talking; but the soil and its occupiers still do." [label info] www.helenscarsdale.com A brilliant and beguiling cassette from the Australian transplant Kate Carr, whose slippery compositions dissolve her already dreamy song fragments within the ephemeral details from her field recordings. We keep on coming back to A.C. Marias upon listening to these recordings - she was responsible for one overlooked album in the mid-'80s of delicate post-punk electronica produced with Bruce Gilbert of Wire; and she also collaborated in a couple of Gilbert related side-projects as well. Where A.C. Marias was a songwriter constructing an eerie, vertiginous atmosphere through the eradication of form, Carr arrives at a similar aesthetic locale of strangeways and tendrils in building songs from the ground up through environmental elements and ready-made components. It's a strategy that flourishes in empty spaces where the resonance from bells, insect chorales, cathedral echo, tidal currents, and windswept drones guides the patterned ellipses from her moody guitar ambience and subtle rhythmic vibrations, unfurling into a transfixing, mesmerizing album of sodden, pastoral impressionism. Limited to 125 copies.(Aquarius Rec)