HR157 - Violence & The Sacred - Lost Horizons Part 2 - C46 — 1988
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
Violence & the Sacred were a Canadian ensemble. For this performance they were the quartet of St. Deborah on voice, Scott Kerr on synth, beatbox and tapes, Graham Stewart on cello, synth and tapes, and Ted Wheeler on guitar and tapes. The set was recorded live at The Fallout Shelter in Toronto on May 2, 1987. This is Part 2 of the performance that began with Lost Horizons (Part One) (HR081). Readers/listeners are encouraged to start there to get the full experience.
Like Part One, we’ve got an intriguing blend of music and tape artistry. Voice samples share space with screechy, droning instruments, making for a psychedelically trippy brand of experimental collage and freeform chamber rock ensemble. The spoken samples often take front and center, making for an avant-garde theater production vibe. I love the array of creatively mashed up, mind-bending, and continuously evolving music, samples, and St. Deborah’s spoken word poems. This gets way more experimentally freaky than Part One!
The credits note that the performance was accompanied by slides, video, film and projections. I would love to have been there.
Violence & the Sacred were a Canadian ensemble. For this performance they were the quartet of St. Deborah on voice, Scott Kerr on synth, beatbox and tapes, Graham Stewart on cello, synth and tapes, and Ted Wheeler on guitar and tapes. The set was recorded live at The Fallout Shelter in Toronto on May 2, 1987. This is Part 2 of the performance that began with Lost Horizons (Part One) (HR081). Readers/listeners are encouraged to start there to get the full experience.
Like Part One, we’ve got an intriguing blend of music and tape artistry. Voice samples share space with screechy, droning instruments, making for a psychedelically trippy brand of experimental collage and freeform chamber rock ensemble. The spoken samples often take front and center, making for an avant-garde theater production vibe. I love the array of creatively mashed up, mind-bending, and continuously evolving music, samples, and St. Deborah’s spoken word poems. This gets way more experimentally freaky than Part One!
The credits note that the performance was accompanied by slides, video, film and projections. I would love to have been there.