Wounded Knee

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Member Since: 7/20/2005
Band Website: SHAZZBLAT " SHAZZBLAT
Band Members: WK PRODUCT:
Die Berliner Luft on SHAZZBLAT
WK Minerals release on BENBECULA RECORDS
OUT NOW on KOVOROX SOUND
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Sounds Like: Die Berliner Luft: As distinctive and fascinating as ever this is minimally recorded using one mic, a radio and looping pedals, much like his live sets. The vocal tracks range from the suitably soporific thrum and almost Aboriginal drone of "The Big Sleep" to the protest round-singing of "Iran" to the a cappella renditions of "I See a Darkness" and the traditional "When the Whale Gets Strike". Add to this some wonderfully fuzzed-up drones, kazoo crooned melancholy and shortwave hauntings, and you have a mighty fine disc. Gayle Brogan, Melody Bar
Benbecula Minerals: All at once unsettling, eerie, strange and yet illuminating and strangely engaging, Wright cultivates with the most minimal usage of instruments a rarefied air of something innately traditional and vintage, like a lost language he crafts an unrivalled feast of archaic folk mantras and dusted spirituals whose melodic lilt is borne of looped vocal drone interplays. As though sourced and relocated from some Appalachian mountain tribe (as on the haunting monastic like ‘mycology is better than yours’) and blended with the native shanties of the railroad pioneers (just check out the softly psychedelicised magic mushroom munching ’all manner of magical spores’ or the days end alluring cotton field lilt of ‘new dawn coda‘). An experience to behold Losing Today
This record manages to be forward thinking and traditionally Scottish at the same time, way out and listenable at the same time and that’s not something that can always be said Ed Jupp, Is This Music?
show some humility! : The disk contains one long track that starts off with a fairly simply yet odd stuck electro rhythmic loop, then slowly but surely he adds on more subtle layers of linked rhythmic sounds as well as what could be the sound of distant rain, overworked wind bellows ect, aged machine tones, ect- giving the whole track a very hypnotic aged and come alive junk yard feel, as if moss weaved spokes are moving once more and rust incrusted engineers are trying to tick over. There’s a great feeling of building tension and anticipation with-in the loops as he alters and builds their atmosphere towards more noisy climbs Roger Batty, Musique Machine
Record Label: Benbecula, Kovorox Sound, Pjorn72, Shazzblat
Type of Label: None