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***Uprock + The Aphasia Group comb the detritus and effluvial ejaculate of noise, Americana, punk, free jazz, laptop wankery and improvisational percussion, offering music enthusiasts a feast of digital discharge, cover songs, recorded minutes from kelpandcircuits board meetings, and archival tracks from unheard Oakland improv jam sessions. Highlights include: field recordings culled from peep show booths, a scanline synthesized glial cell migration, free jazz mash-ups, oodles of live instruments (digitized and reprocessed guitars, drums, horns and percussion), pedals, patches, a contact mic'd fixed gear bicycle, and an amplified potato. Think Milford Graves and The Nihilist Spasm Band in conversation with Tom Ze and Masami Akita. Imagine a celebrity "jam band" fronted by Peter Brotzmann and Eugene Chadbourne uniting ex-members of Matching Mole, Mission of Burma and Throbbing Gristle for one epic, sun-kissed late '70s performance. Expect everything from minimal, digital guitar workouts and sinewy found sound collage, to hectic beat frenzies and dubby jeep bumps. Stellar trumpet and guitar expertise from the late Joel Rabinow (ex-Drunk Horse), a beautiful booklet of The Aphasia Group's bitcrumbled photomicroscopy, and some seriously damaged MPEG work courtesy of San Francisco pixel wrangler Scott Pagano round out the disk to obese proportions. Like a Powerpoint presentation for your ears, Jungle Green Memes is sure to please even the most discriminating music aficionados. |
