drones for siberia!

to continue with my love for some Birchville Cat Motel, here's his 1998 cd released on that wonderful label Drunken Fish (you know, "Harmony of the Spheres" boxset?) entitled "Siberian Earth Curve." this cd opens with a long low drone that is layer upon layer of noise piled up until it's a slow boil of churning bubbling drone that only BCM could conjure up. then, he adds melody to the mix on the second track, a sort of backwards raga with slide-whistles. the next track sounds like a plane going down in a buggs bunny cartoon for ten minutes, but if you listen closely to all the goings on, you will be rewarded; it's much more than a plane going down. next, he brings the static back full force, with a piercing attack of high end noise that sounds like the recording of a hundred kettles boiling and put through a distortion pedal. brilliant. finishing the cd off comes the title track, shifting tonal experiment that adds and subtracts high frequency tones for 15 minutes.

this cd is great. Campbell Kneale never disappoints, and if you are a fan of drone music you will really enjoy this cd.

Bircville Cat Motel - Siberian Earth Curve
http://www.mediafire.com/?wzjnzujjmfm

prettyblackmetalterror

so the first time i heard of Birchville Cat Motel was from my friend neil... he asked me if i was going to see them play at a local venue... i said i wasn't sure. i didn't go. this was a few years back, maybe 3 or more. a few weeks after the show i downloaded with maples ablaze... i started kicking myself then. how could i have missed something so beautiful yet so LOUD?!?! i was pissed at myself. i wrote a band off because of a weird name... dumb.

Birchville Cat Motel (now known to the world as "Our Love Will Destroy The World," which is the title of another incredible bcm cd...) is basically the astral projection of one man, Campbell Kneale. Mr. Kneale uses such things as feild recordings, pedals, guitars, laptops, contact mics, pieces of metal, and vacuum cleaners to make his music, which usually goes toward the dronier side of things (though not as a rule). his drones are warm washes of lush guitar, excrutiating swells of static, walls of delicate noise, and decaying waves of sonic light. if i had to choose one word to describe birchville cat motel it would be beautiful, whether it is the walls of high end skree or the warm lush blankets of drone, it is all beautiful and space-altering.

if you like drone, experimental, ambient, noise, black metal (yes, black metal), or any other type of music you really owe it to your soul to listen to everything by this wonderful project and you should all be sending mr. kneale buckets of cash so he can continue to pump out more of his incendiary and exciting slow music.

this is the album "Summer's Seething Pulse." it's a good starting place, but be warned: the songs ain't short. get real high, put it on, and watch as you float into a universe you never knew existed.

exceptional, amazing, and absolutely essential.

Birchville Cat Motel: Summer's Seething Pulse

http://www.mediafire.com/?ozwgniqamzm