Monosov, Ilya & Swirnoff, Preston / (vol. 2) Two Recorded Works

Eclipse

"Two Recorded Works opens in equally brooding, cinematic fashion with SWIRNOFF’s 'air organ' slow gasping its weighted way through magenta dust-clouds of bowed guitar. Later, sea-shanty bellows underscore the spectral traces of whistles and ghosted vocals and whistles to particularly melancholic effect. But the final side, credited to MONOSOV and Swirnoff's rock unit THE SHINING PATH, is a whole other kettle of herring. It rockets upwards into the fuzzed out expansive zones of the Rallizes sound, but is tethered to an on-edge, speedfreak shake of a Suicide rhythm, just too fast for comfort. Bliss handily circumvented, higher mind tied to delirium tremens. I think they're trying to tell us something"—Alan Cummings. Edition of 500 copies.

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