Various Artists - Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair
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The tape is dubbed to high quality standard, and served on a well-designed, well made card inlay with sticker, insert, etc... Matching the meticulous / seemingly effortless levels of the music supplied here, which comes from a host of wickedly fearless, and skilled musicians and sound makers.
Including locally-loved crew who have released on the label, from Ex Agent to Dan Johnson, BIPED, Mr Aka Amazing, and connecting the dots with a wider extended network of avant garde and underground musicians - 'Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture And Repair' counts in at 23 tracks, and takes in a wide array of really quite stunning music from the likes of (vocal improv queen) Dali De Saint Paul and (new-age scratch experimentalist) Mariam Rezaei, or perhaps (percussion don) Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello (who both also worked together on getting that excellent Basta Now queer/female musicians in experimental music book out to the world, no less)...
The tape is brimming with beautifully forward/backward/sideward thinking music to be honest, we could easily go into each one and revel on it.. But instead we'll just recommend you listen to the thing in full (on tape ideally... nudge nudge) and let it all unfold and witness it start to fizz at the seams and break out of bounds, more and more, as it goes on.
Top stuff, definitely, 100% check it out if you're of the intrigued, head-in-the-underground-experimental-scene type persuasion, and want to find something new, and current, and honest.
Artwork by Charlie Behrens