Dan Melchior / Ezio Piermattei, by Dan Melchior & Ezio Piermattei

Dan Melchior / Ezio Piermattei

by Dan Melchior & Ezio Piermattei

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1.	Fliptop Predicts 05:29	buy track
2.	Bad Gateway 04:23	buy track
3.	Lurch 00:57	buy track
4.	A Corner Of The Forest 07:34	buy track
5.	Two Tiny Kingdoms 13:47	buy track
6.	A Teacher Star 05:11	buy track

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Released on cassette by MY DANCE THE SKULL
www.mydancetheskull.com

"Exquisite tape collage collaboration between two crackling bonfires of good ideas. Voice, tapes, guitar, organ, synth, percussion etc get chucked into a pot and ladled out into rough clay bowls. The soup is a steaming but cleansing broth full of herbs and piquant with fine vinegar dressing.I think what I am trying to say is there is no confusion here. Sounds and structure are distinct and clear.The casio-tone rhythm of ‘Bad Gateway’ may be emboldened by rubbery ripping but it’s very deliberate. As if to prove the point a simple piano sparkles in 3D above the misty sounding mung below. ‘Lurch’, a micro song, betrays Dan’s Medway roots and acts like a punky sorbet before the prog-tastic ‘A Corner of the Forest’ in which the sound of Cluster artfully collapsing in a doorway, folding way into nothingness, is channelled through psych-guitar and no-audience vocal hink. The sung coda, picking up the guitar part, is pure genius and worth the price of the tape alone.‘Two Tiny Kingdoms’, the longest piece on the tape, is an epic construction. Through whirling sound-strobes and dainty vocal recordings a humble theme emerges. Over, under and between this central frame echoes of Italian and American voice the bilingual, the act of listening to another language jabbing my pleasure centres just like a Phil Minton jam. Subtle tape skizz adds some sonic grit and gets cautiously heavier with some occasional fretboard fuggery until the creaking of old ropes leads us out the maze.The final song makes me smile the widest, because ‘A Teacher Star’ sounds exactly like Portishead jacked-up on Dictaphone Jazz and filthy vocal Jizz. Can you imagine that? Of course you can. And I have to tell you it sounds bloody right and bloody great."

Joe Murray - Radio Free Midwich

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released June 16, 2014

Dan Melchior: voice, guitar, tapes, piano, percussion, organ, synthesizer, editing, assemblage, sequencing. Ezio Piermattei: voice, clarinet, guitar, percussion, tapes, field recordings. Letha Rodman Melchior: voice on "Two Tiny Kingdoms"

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