Label: Psychic Sounds

どマイナー作家ですがこの世界観は素晴らしい!!4~5程の変名を使い分けながら、主にマイナーなカセットレーベルより作品を発表してきたUniversal Cell Unlock。この名義での1st LPフォーマットリリースとなる音源を米Psychic Soundsより出版。恐らくパーカッションを主軸としているであろう怪しいサウンドが木霊する40分間の構成で、ある部分ではコラージュ的に、またコンクレート的に、セクションの様な形で進行する最高にクールなストレンジ録音ブツ。アートワークも意味不明で良い。







Limited Edition 12" Vinyl w/ full color cover pressed on black vinyl and housed in poly lined black inner sleeve. Includes a hand stamped, double sided black & white fold-out 11x17" insert direct from the NYC studio of CF.

"Not recommended listening when alone and in the dark for fear of opening a portal to the unknown, Quasimodo The Streetsweeper is an unblinking Charon across dark waters. Trust him only because you have to." - Rob Gannon, [sic] Magazine

What remarks can recall the pampered page when the subject shines through so many shaken seams? The remarks are for the producer of QUASIMODO THE STREETSWEEPER, the mysterious, though constantly revealing, CF, presenting himself here as UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK. Christopher Forgues of Brown Recluse Alpha, Mark Lord, Kites, and author of blazetastic comic books –ever checkout Power Masters? What remarks could remain after all that? However, one still finds this fresh pile of inviting and mature music, coated in the haunting haze of digital reverb.

What premeditated remark could recharge reminisces of New York more than the city’s newly appointed director of rodent mitigation? The lost legend of Tony Conrad running up the steps of a Manhattan church to meet the mysterious mad one playing the bells in the spire, Charlemagne Palestine. The bristles from the machines of swirling repetition that push parking brush to the side are repurposed here as pluckphonic metal keys, mined for their rich harmonic content. There are strategies taken from the decidedly unfocused on New York musical tradition of American and global capital-N Noise music. An invitation to a closed eye head bob is quickly revoked with a shock call to attentiveness. There’s an attentiveness here. Across forty minutes of percussion music, with some stark electronic accouterments along the way, the focus on the form and compositional aspects is forgotten only to let the sounds build and interact without pesky human interruption. That’s the remark to recall: remarkable music with new surprises pushed through. - Ben Kudler