Sonic Youth Gossip - Batreleaser's Overlooked Masterpieces 1:Tower Recordings-Furniture Music for Evening.

Shuttles
Siltbreeze
1997

I just decided I'm gonna once in a while post a thread about a record that is amazing and never gets talked about.

So, Tower Recordings. Quite an anomaly of a band. Amazing homeade Psych Folk with all sorts of fucked up tape experimentation and no wave tendencies and most important, BEAUTY. Take the first two tracks; 'Moon Rocks Off" which is an incredibly diverse and rich song with electronics, strings, piano, and middle eastern instruments. And then "Q Delmak-0" follows with a simple piano and ambience track topped by beautiful female vocals. The record continues on in this ridiculously diverse fasion for the entire duration. I just got into this band three weeks ago and I really don't know anything about the players involved, but it seems as if its just a bunch of random Psych, Folk, and Noise musicians from New York in the mid 90s got together to do a record that was the penultimate example of the coalescing of those genres. It's something like the perfect Siltbreeze record as it encompasses everything that label stands for whether it be out there psych folk, noise damaged garage rock, etc.. Its amazing to me how overlooked the importance of this record on this decade's music. Ben Chasny for example must have definitly been taking notes here.

Obvious influences on here are Angus Maclise, esp-disk Folk (pearls before swine, etc..), Ash Ra/Faust/Popul Vuh/Can, some Free Jazz, etc...

get it here http://glowingraw.blogspot.com/2008/...music-for.html