things that look interesting from this week's forced exposure mailing

POLMO POLPO: Kiss Me Again and Again CD (INEP
002). 22 minute EP, CoolDiscTM, screenprinted
sleeve, limited to 500 copies. "His contribution
to the newly launched EP series is a sprawling
dystopian disco homage to Arthur Russell's late
seventies contorted dance project, Dinosaur.
'Kiss Me Again and Again' chugs its way out of
the station with dizzying guitar clutter
fluttering over a propulsive drum loop that rolls
in a hypnotized funk. The track unfolds like a
brown rose and undergoes a metamorphosis slow
enough to fool you into making comparisons to
growing grass. Until you realize that you're no
longer looking at a lawn but a jungle. Sandro
Perri has created another hybrid masterpiece that
is liable to blow up dance floors like a cluster
bomb, infect road trips and make even the most
jaded listener gasp for air." $9.00

BIRD SHOW: Green Inferno CD (KRANK 078CD). "Ben
Vida recorded and edited Green Inferno at home
during the winter of 2003 and 2004 on a digital
16 track recorder singing and playing, violin,
cornet, accordion, acoustic guitar, organ, qrareb
(Moroccan castanets), assorted shakers tambourine
and mbira, and integrating field recordings from
Tokyo recorded by Atsuhiro Koizymi and from
Puerto Rico by Fred Lonberg-Holm. Jeremy Lemos
and Ben Vida mixed the album at Lemos' apartment.
These home recordings differ from anything Ben
has done in the past; though they retain
elements of the many groups he has worked with
over the years, with these recordings Ben delves
deeper into realm of outsider stream of
consciousness vocal/percussive/ psychedelic drone
song . While working on Green Inferno, Vida had
been listening to field recordings from around
the world and Morocco, Zimbabwe, and Pakistan in
particular. He found himself as interested in the
surroundings the recordings were made in as he
was in the music itself. Lattices of percussion
blur in mesmerizing fashion, voices sing out over
gongs, cicadas, and helicopters, trenchant
drones break into conversations and then into
song." $13.00

SEVEN ARK: Noise of the New CD (NEO 027CD).
"Seven Ark is Justin de Nobrega and hails from
Cape Town, South Africa, which goes some way to
explaining the originality of his sound.
Geographical isolation has played its part: with
a sense of separation has come the need to push
boundaries, to combine multiple genres into a
cohesive whole that takes the proverbial envelope
and pushes it as far as electronically possible.
This is unabashed, progressive electronic music
that's constantly tackling new forms and
structures, aimed as much at people's
appreciation of innovation their listening
faculties. 'Sixteen' shows Seven Ark at his best
- break of dawn chords, melodic relief from the
ripped, crunch beat - drawn from the top drawer
of electronic head-nod. If Apparat's prior Neo
vinyl CD Ep Shape Modes described the sound of
machine error, Seven Ark may well imagine a time
when they've learned to get along. 'Glass
shattering under water' however, reveals more
than a passing fancy for the hiccup beat of full
blown electronic hip-hop, and this is no idle
dalliance. 'Floor' with its chunky, juddering
beat and lifted by a gorgeous acoustic guitar
lick betrays Justin's fascination with the
preternatural talents of Arovane, and that's some
compliment, as Uwe Zahn has shown himself easily
the most progressive and gifted of the second
generation idmers this past five years. Of course
the spectre of Autechre's genius has always
weighed heavy on this virally active sub-genre,
and their penchant for the mighty squashed beat
makes itself felt towards the end of this
fascinating and enticing debut full length."
$16.00

MAZZACANE CONNORS/CHRISTINA CARTER, LOREN:
Meditations on the Ascension of Blind Joe Death
Vol. 1 LP (FYPL 41). "Mail 4-track collaborations
by Loren Mazzacane Connors and Christina Carter
(Scorces/Charalambides), done in memory of John
Fahey. First in a proposed Ecstatic Yod LP series
of duos done in honor of Fahey, each with
different personnel. Full color cover with
handsome artwork by the handsome Conrad
Capistran. Cover is in the style of Tom Weller's
earlier versions of Vol 1-3 Fahey albums (not
the later, b&w Renaissance-esque drawing
versions, but the duo-tone large lettering)."
$12.50

and also the sublime frequencies catalog seems to have exploded...