Brise-Glace
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Brise-Glace is a band with a strange pedigree, bringing a diverse, and at times startling vocabulary to play. This is Jim O’Rourke’s baby, his take on a “rock band”. A lot has been said about the process of building “when In Vanitas…”, maybe too much, but the process is fascinating. After recording the stuff of the songs, the band is subjected to Jim’s razor blade splice, which he wields virtuosically. The methodology may recall Holger Czukay or Faust, but Thymme Jones’ grovin’ beats and the recomposer’s fondness for radio static result in something more like a bare-knuckled brawl between John Bonham and Brian Eno. Something interesting and unidentifiable is happening at nearly every moment, and the context of how these moments relate means as much as the individual moments themselves. A dirt-clouded pool of very quiet, nearly subliminal, noise eddies for a few minutes, is taken over by Thymme’s clipped, distorted drumming and Darin’s inquisitive bass lines, then the whole resolves itself back into ripples of atonal and arrhythmic sound. A wealth of details are whistling and hissing deep within each track.
Brise-Glace don’t play it safe, deconstructing the functions of rock music, while unquestionably performing as a rock band.
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When In Vanitas...
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When in Vanitas
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In Sisters All and Felony
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midwestfaggot
One Syntactical Unit
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plannetshh
one of the most important records in (and addressed to) 'rock' music, despite the fact that it completely deconstructs all that anyone would/may ever consider 'rock 'n roll.' in many ways "When In Vanitas" is an album in essay format (it's very didactic!). the record calls into question the tropes and tendencies of rock music, while still managing (paradoxically) to rock-the-fuck-out (at times). humor is used throughout the record too-- but only a very close listening will yield it. bravo , jim
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thecowman
Nothing has even begun to catch up with this yet.
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panterarules666
particular band
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Grindfucked
best find in a long time
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ookunoki
i'd forgotten how excellent the lp + ac/dc tape cut/splice piece are. need to (soul)seek out the few other titles i seem to be missing.
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