Post by robotmeyrat on Mar 11, 2022 7:09:32 GMT -5
The Necrophile Hummingbird Netlabel and Indie Rock Mag present OVER CAN by PIRATE Tapes in free download here archive.org/details/PIRATE_Tapes_Over_Can
and here indierockmag.bandcamp.com/album/over-can
About over the surface of this album :
The rhythm of Over Can is strongly marked by the use of a small electronic speed variator, bought in a garage sale for 2 euros. Originally it had no particular function, it was just made to serve as a practical exercise in technology class and could have ended up in a trash can. Instead, by chance it became a key part of my turntable circuit. It is now coupled to my record player to allow me to vary the speed of the loops that I make with rubber bands. A little more in reality because like the sun visor I used before, these loops oscillate being sensitive to both vibrations and these variations.This is a detail that testifies to the Do-It-Yourself spirit which is an essential characteristic of the unclassifiable music shared by the Necrophile Hummingbird. Anything can become a musical source, it is the experimentation process that allows it. At the start of the netlabel we weren't looking to make experimental music, we were doing musical experimentations because we didn't have access to overpriced instruments. Creativity, the hijacking of toys, the recycling of household appliances, the malfunctioning of instruments at the end of their life, have opened up horizons for us that are much less common than those of ordinary musicians.
For those who would like to find avenues of experimentation, reading the french magazine Discuss is more than recommended :
archive.org/details/discuts-pdf
About below the surface :
The same way our album Faust Tape archive.org/details/PIRATE_Tapes_Faust_tape evokes more than it imitates Faust, we didn't want to fall into a caricature of CAN, but on the contrary find its spirit, in particular the kind of avant-garde experimentation featured on Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi. This no doubt explains why intense psychedelia oozes from OVER CAN. It can also be seen as a literal reading of Krautrock: "sauerkraut rock", as at times the cursor is pushed far, closer to concrete music.
Even if to create it we were only a duo, even a trio, because the elements taken from Onl(y)ou had their say in the creation process, it is above all the fruit of a certain conception of collaboration in an improvisation group without a leader, where each member can carry the music into their universe according to the pieces and albums. It is also a reminder that this musical current, if I am not mistaken, was relatively marked by the psychedelic movement and the anarcho-libertarian and situ protest movement that developed in Germany around the 70s. CAN means Communist Anarchist Nihilist. It is also found in the phrase "Only Lovers Can Cover Can", which perhaps means that it is not music of the Egos, but of the heart, made with the guts, which refers to this consciousness, as has said David Lynch recently in a video intended for Vladimir Putin, to belong to a planetary family. Faced with the ravages of all nationalisms, we are earthlings. And this whatever the borders that the rulers will place. Whatever their lies to divide us and the fears they harbor. The day humanity succeeds in getting rid of predatory behaviors, of all those who are addicted to power, then we will know peace, and freedom will no longer be an illusion. But for that, we may need to get to know ourselves and understand the world in which we live by feeling its holistic dimension. Supporting all populations without double standards. And why not use degrowth to limit the climate crisis. And break the screens of our terminals to go outside to meet with living beings. Loving each other without owning each other. Tearing asphalt from the streets to make gardens. Share all the earth's resources fairly. And take the time to live. Together.
Recorded on Earth in 1976 and 2021 at Studio Inner Space in Weilerswist and Studio 112 in Dole and Cave Haven in Foucherans .
PIRATE Tapes members present on the album:
Alain Grille studio112.bandcamp.com/
Ed End ello.co/ed_end
Official PIRATE Tapes webpage here
www.horsnorme.org/PIRATE_Tapes/
Special thanks to CAN for their voices and music and also to the Pure Freude label for the distribution of Onl(y)ou.
Dedicated to all plunderphonic copythieves.
There is an alternate version of Dada Sisterhood Playground (49) on this free V/A compilation archive.org/details/MI400-VA-The_400th_Murmur
Some may notice an anomaly in the playlist that goes from the 9th to the 11th song. This is not an error but a trace of the abandonment of the 90 minutes version of the album. An excerpt from one of these pieces can be heard at the end of Motorik Neue Musik's Video Art Clip along with very clear explanations of CAN's position about the medias.
