Label: Horn of Plenty

英Horn of Plentyが発掘した自国の実験バンド!!美しいリソグラフ印刷のパッケージで作品リリースを展開した英サウンドアートレーベルHideous Replica。ここの立ち上げ人であるLouie Riceを中心に00年代にロンドンで結成、現在はノリッジに拠点を移し廃墟となったショッピングセンターのスタジオを借りて活動しているトリオバンドGerm Latticeの1st。ドラム、ベース、シンセサイザーの編成にて演奏形態をとっていながら、やたらと鉱物的、断続的な音で構築された不思議な作品であり、自国のイースト・アングリアの風景やフォルクローレの要素も取り入れているとの事。このアブストラクトな感じがまさにHorn of Plenty。







This Norwich-based trio hit our radar earlier this year when we caught their third live performance in London. Gipping Through the Ages is their debut release.

Joe Barton, Mickey Donnelly, and Louie Rice met in London during the 2000’s but it wasn’t until they had relocated to Norwich in recent years that they rented a studio in a condemned brutalist shopping centre and the Germ Lattice sound was formed. They began by agreeing what they didn’t want the project to be: no improvising or jamming, no overdubs, keep the tracks short etc..

Gipping Through the Ages presents the band’s structured, repetitive & linear tracks built around drums, bass, and synth with deliberately abstract vocals, which draw as much from folk traditions and the broader east Anglian landscape as they do from our fragmented modern world. Their novel use of microphones and live tape processing add a dynamism to the music where elements mask each other or the overdriven meters suggest the whole thing is on the brink of collapse.

Imagine this record as a palimpsest, rooted in place but spanning time, layering ephemeral traces of Mark E Smith, WG Sebald, and Laura Oldfield Ford. Musical references to Mosquitoes, Tools You Can Trust, Dome or Metabolist do not mislead.