Country: USA
Genre(s): Experimental, Art Rock, Avant Prog
Label: Hairy Spider Legs, NNA Tapes
Format: vinyl, digital, cassette
Release date: April 21, 2015
Tracklist:
1. A Gift. (4:22)
2. Fortunate 2. (6:00)
3. To Man. (3:17)
4. Darting Fish. (3:21)
5. Pledge. (4:00)
6. To Woman. (5:06)
7. Return Of Bright Stream. (4:50)
Line-up:
Rob Jacobs - prepared guitar, vocals, violin
John McCowen - clarinet and electronics
Sam Klickner - drums
Description/Reviews:
...Nu Trance is both one of the best and one of the silliest records that I’ve heard in years.Read the full review by Lach Walter at cyclicdefrost.com
It’s just so much fun. And goddamn, it sure is silly.
It’s got the lot; Wei Zhongle seem to have a huge metaphorical crate of toys to play with. Sometimes they use just three or four of them, sometimes it sounds like they’re all being played at once. You name it, it’s exists somewhere in the mix – delayed drum machines that seemingly originate from cheap keyboards, synthesiser lines that go around and around and around, whale-song drones that burble and bubble, weird noise walls almost textural enough to touch, electronic Sesame Street melody lines, tick-tock clicking-clock beats, loops loops loops, playful and out-there vocals that sometimes behave as just another instrument and sometimes seem to be singing in tongues, obscure world instruments filtered through fx-pedals, disintegrating soundscapes and out-of-phase delays, gentle moments of empty space, sudden barrages of sound that threaten and overwhelm…
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