Artist : Zurich
Title : Zurich
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2009
Date : 04/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 06
Label : Important Records
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 30:09 min
Size : 42,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.The Mastmaker 03:48
02.Tzarist 06:01
03.A Harsh Truth Part 1 03:31
04.A Harsh Truth Part 2 04:24
05.Too Scared To Breath 06:02
06.Militia [Dynamic Warfare] 06:23
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30:09 min
Limited edition of 500 copies pressed at
RTI and packaged in heavy duty jackets
screen printed at Monoroid. Featuring
members of Tony Wilson (Knives ov
Resistance), Neil Halstead
(Slowdive/Mojave 3), & Sarah Peacock
(Seefeel). First 100 mailorder copies on
white vinyl.
Zurich began as a 1994 musical
partnership between Neil Halstead then
of Slowdive and Tony F Wilson. The two
recorded a handful of tracks together at
a time when Wilson was co-promoting and
DJing at the club/live night Quirky in
South London where he booked acts
including Pan Sonic, Hafler Trio and
Autechre. Halstead was shortly to begin
work on Slowdive’s final and most
experimental album Pygmalion. Recorded
at a time when the popularity of ambient
techno was at its peak, these recordings
are remarkably austere by comparison.
Whilst A Harsh Truth displays the
Oriental gracefulness of a
Sakamoto/Sylvian collaboration,
Tzarist’s gothic
industrialism shares more in common with
the early works of Coil. Following the
release of
Pygmalion and Creation letting go of
Slowdive, Halstead would disband
Slowdive and abandon
sound experimentation to create more
song-based material in Mojave 3. Shortly
thereafter,
Wilson began collaborating with drum &
bass producer and engineer Joe Gray on
more rhythm
based, yet still atmospheric
productions. Too Scared to Breath
features the voice of Seefeel’s
Sarah Peacock and sounds not unlike
prime Autechre and Aphex. Militia
(Dynamic Warfare) on
the other hand mirrors the post-metal
Dub of Techno Animal and Scorn.
All of the recordings were lost until
very recently when Touch recording
artist Mark Van Hoen
found the two tracks on old CD-Rs and
cassettes he was given by Wilson.
Wilson produced and recorded in the
Knives ov Resistance project for the
Aurora Borealis label
and is currently working on a project
with Ted Parson (Swans/Prong).
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