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Way Out
2002
CD
Archegon
66.00
Recorded in a barn by a bunch of hippies, Way Out is a sprawling cacophony
of odd sounds, generated by an Aladdin's cave of conventional and unconventional
instruments, ranging from electric shavers, stones and beer cans to mouth organs
and saxophones to whizzy computer effects. What all this sounds most like is
the Pink Floyd sometime circa 1972, indeed on the excellent 'Da Staunt
Die Kuh!' the massed ensemble seem on the very verge of breaking into a rendition
of 'Atom Heart Mother', a piece that seems - when considered alongside this
- the very model of restraint and conservatism. Gunther Schroth, whose
excellent Barcode Music I have already reviewed in these pages, seems
to be the main mover behind this orchestrated chaos, this structured anarchy.
"The music was of great interest to the cows which trotted to the barn from
a nearby pasture and gazed with trusting goggle eyes", as he puts it. Way
Out should be both annoying and irrelevant, in fact it manages to sound
pertinent and genuinely subversive. It wasn't just the barn, this disc also
covers performances given in a Munich beer hall, a café situated beneath
a "bizarre rock formation" in a place called Langfigtal, and an arty festival
in Rotterdam. Smoking.
STEWART GOTT - 10 October 2002
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