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The duo of Greg Kelley and Jason Lescalleet premiered on Erstwhile Records in 2001 with the critically lauded Forlorn Green CD. Thirteen years later, Glistening Examples is proud to present their 2nd duo album, CONVERSATIONS.
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Includes unlimited streaming of CONVERSATIONS
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Tracks 1, 2, 3, and 6 were recorded on July 13, 2013 at Glistening Labs USA in Berwick Maine.
Track 4 was recorded on May 17, 2013 during the Cha'ak'ab Paaxil: Festival de Improvisación Libre, Free Jazz y Noise at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Yucatan in Mexico City, Mexico, with thanks to Gerardo Alejos and Enrique Rejón for their support.
Track 5 was recorded live to 2-track on April 20, 2014 at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket Rhode Island.
All tracks mixed mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs USA in Berwick Maine.
"Massively heavy two-header from contemporary soundists Greg Kelley and Jason Lescalleet on Lescalleet's own label: here Kelley uses Realistic Concertmate MG-1, Roland RE-20 Space Echo, Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer and trumpet, Lescalleet uses tapes, turntables, amplified objects and Dell XPS. The sound is massively dense, slow-moving, with textures of metal and rust compacted into massive, juddering heavy meta drones that combine the phantom creepy-crawling feel of a Folke Rabe with the eroto-Industrial body stimulation of classic Neubauten and the disorientating deep/multidimensional production style of a Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson.
“La Conversacion” is particularly dazzling, with the kind of wailing, speaking in tongues trumpet work of a Donald Ayler mutated to the point of cries of pain intercepted by omming muezzin calls and the kind of fluttering/abysmal drone work that sounds like a swarm of flies buzzing in the heart of hollow planets. Lescalleet's recent collaboration with Graham Lambkin was one of the highlights of his catalogue and this stands shoulder to shoulder with it while obliterating alla the personal detail of Photographs in favour of obsessively annihilating electricity.
Totally fantastic and highly recommended."
- David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue
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released June 3, 2014
Greg Kelley: Realistic Concertmate MG-1, Roland RE-20 Space Echo, Electro-Harmonix Frequency Analyzer, trumpet
Jason Lescalleet: Tapes, turntables, amplified objects, and Dell XPS
So soothing! So ominous. A warning siren for someone, but not you. This is a drone I can return to endlessly, knowing that it will calm me and give me some focus. Mister Meows
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