METAL ROUGE
Ephemeroptera 01 - 05 Box set
A five volume series inspired by aquatic insects – their beauty and decline. Mayflies, Stoneflies, Dobsonflies, Caddisflies etc. – the first victims of chemical pollution – alien, forgotten, voiceless. The indistinct, the tiny, those that dwell under river stones, those that pass from this world barely imprinting themselves on human lore - their silent extinction an unnoticed monument to human ignorance. We dedicate this series to them. The series takes its title from the taxon name for the order of Mayflies, the adult forms of which can live for as little as two days. As the mountains melt to fill the river beds, as the river beds are swallowed by the sky, as documentation comes to an end, we cast these recordings into the flames.
Each copper Box is hand specialized with a spraypainted image of a gnat and includes all five Ephemeroptera CDrs. OUT OF PRINT
METAL ROUGE
Ephemeroptera 01 - 05 CDrs
Each volume is an edition of 50. Recorded In Los Angeles unless otherwise noted.
Five volume series inspired by aquatic insects – their beauty and decline. Mayflies, Stoneflies, Dobsonflies, Caddisflies etc. – the first victims of chemical pollution – alien, forgotten, voiceless. The indistinct, the tiny, those that dwell under river stones, those that pass from this world barely imprinting themselves on human lore - their silent extinction an unnoticed monument to human ignorance. We dedicate this series to them. The series takes its title from the taxon name for the order of Mayflies, the adult forms of which can live for as little as two days. As the mountains melt to fill the river beds, as the river beds are swallowed by the sky, as documentation comes to an end, we cast these recordings into the flames.We are SOLD OUT but try Boa Melody Bar
or Eclipse Records or Mimaroglu Music Sales
YEK KOO
A PLEA FOR A NIGHT DESERT BLUE MOON STORM. CDr
Ed. 100 Recorded in Los Angeles, CA 2006 - 2007. every cover is handmade-stitched and irregular.
"Yek Koo 'A Plea For A Night Desert Blue Moon Storm' – Santur, Setar, vocals, computer and tape machine set free in the valleys and canyons of suburban Los Angeles. This is a CD of automatic devotional streams like curtains of rain. This is a CD of stringed gamelan rituals punked onto suburban night skies. There is a rush of suspension, that moment, the stage-diver propelled out above the crowd conscious only of impulse and impact. Imagine if the sensation of acceleration could be slowed to a crawl. Imagine the locus of will and movement (cf. Charlemagne Palestine, the thin weave of Argon-era Skullflower). There is a surface that breaks upon the impact of will and duration, untether yourself, beneath this river you will hear an absent orchestra, strings rubbed raw by computers, one mountain beset by heavy rains. Living electricity has its own history which Yek Koo is breathing into the Santur and Setar. It is the animating power made manifest. It spreads in concentric waves, freeing electrons in its path. Again, untether yourself – we are but simple engineers, pressing buttons, turning keys, undoing locks - to be lost, to be pulled in and under by the current of ritual overtones – this is where the true spirit begins."
- Andrew Scott OUT OF PRINT
METAL ROUGE
CALLING WINTER
Ed.100. Recorded in Los Angeles CA. 2006 - 2007 Seymour Records. 12 different cover designs.
"This duo (one half New Zealand, one half L.A.) played here last night, with AQ faves Expo '70 (we missed it, writing reviews you know, bad timing, list week, argh) but from what folks tell us, they surprised everyone by totally dominating, and entrancing everyone with their humid guitar ambience and shimmering metallic dronescapes. And hearing this cd it's not difficult to hear why.
Metal Rouge is the duo of Andrew Scott (who you might remember as half of the duo Nest, with Nigel Wright) and Helga Fassonaki, who manage to work some pretty serious musical magic together. Plenty of bands do the drone thing, sometimes it's a static hum, other times it's a wall of guitar left to buzz and rumble, but it takes a special something to harness those sounds and sculpt them into something more, to coax emotion from them, to create tension, to turn sounds into actual songs. And Metal Rouge manage that task just fine.
Much like Expo '70, Metal Rouge owe as much to old school krautrock ambience as they do the modern makers of abstract noise. Their guitars and various sonic implements, unfurling slow pulses, motorik throbs, deep swells, a lush low end that seems to let all the other sounds gradually sink into it, melodies drift sleepily, the notes wavering and slowly shimmering, everything bathed in the reverbed glow of some hot late night, lit blue by the moon, the stars glistening like streaks of feedback beneath the roiling ambience. These are actual songs, like some old dusty 78 dipped in tar and played back as slow as it will go, pop music rendered glacial and effulgent. Bits of twang and strum floating lazily by on a slow moving black tide, an incandescent raga like buzz always glimmering in the background, Metal Rouge is like some heavily sedated version of Popol Vuh or Tangerine Dream, their lush, sultry shimmer washing over you and transporting you to some mysterious otherworld. Absolute bliss.
Packaged in a super swank box, with printed insert under the cd, a fold out booklet, a black and white paste on cover (all of them different) and sealed in a thick plastic sleeve affixed with a strip of tape hand stamped with the name of the band" - Aquarius Records OUT OF PRINT
