Label: VHF Records

最初期プロジェクトの後期録音物!!1990年にNo Fans Recordsを始動、弾き語り、ミュージック・コンクレート、超高速のリズムトラックまで、常に予測の付かないアプローチで膨大な数の録音を残してきたUKの大ベテランRichard Youngs。No Fans Recordsを始動した1990年から活動を継続、2000年までに20枚近くのアルバムをレコーディングしリリースした、盟友Simon Wickham-Smithとの共同プロジェクトの音源。本作[5 Years]はプロジェクトの転換期に当たる一枚で、生楽器演奏とミュージック・コンクレートを融合し奇怪でポップなエレクトロニクス作品を提示。







"5 Years" is the venerable duo's first release since "Lammergeier" (vhf#58) in 2000. After recording and releasing nearly 20 albums between 1990 and 2000, Richard and Simon decided to try a novel and opposite approach to music making - they met once each year to record a solitary 10 minute track. The results show the duo remarkably unaffected by the half decade that elapsed - the tracks on "5 Years" reflect their long established signature mix of "real human" instrumental expression and explosive musique concrete sensibility. "2002" starts with several minutes of looped snippets building up subtle patterns as they slide in and out of phase, leading to a change to a tremulous chord organ driven section. "2003" starts with a drastically filtered base of hand drumming, with full-on hand-on-the-knob tweaking, before giving way to an over the top fuzz organ solo that sounds like Mike Ratledge on 200 rpm. "2004" is a throwback of ululating noise as heard on 90's efforts such as "Metallic Sonatas." "2005" is based on electronically treated percussion, the sparest and most minimal track of the bunch. Recorded mere weeks before release, "2006" finishes where we started, with a baffling electronic test pattern drone that segues into a section of beautiful, weird ambience.