Feeding Tube Vinyl, CD & Tape 12 Artikel

Brilliant, inspired and somewhat surprising collaboration between Chicago’s premier free-rock trio and the truly legendary percussionist, Hamid Drake, who has played with everyone from Don Cherry to Peter Brotzmann to Lee Perry.​ This collusion was precipitated by Matt Jackowiak, a mutual friend, who thought a merging of their sounds might make for an ecstatic explosion. This feeling became mutual after they played a show together at Constellation. The set mixed Mako Sica tunes with improvisations that took everyone to places they hadn’t expected, and the trip was deemed an utter success.​ Ronda was done at two sessions, scheduled around Hamid’s insanely busy work schedule. The first was at Jamdek with Douglas Malone at the board, the second was at Electrical Audio with Taylor Hales. The Electrical session allowed the players access to a host of additional instruments, so the sonic palette on “Dance with Waves” and “Emanation” is wider and somehow more cosmic than usual.​ But the whole album has an extraordinary depth and width of sound. Even the great songs Mako Sica has had in its set for a while like “The Old Book,” gain whole new levels of otherness here, and the material based in quartet improvisations, like “The Wu Wei,” explores wild new territory for the band.​ Ronda (named after a town in southern Spain with a famous 18th Century bridge crossing a deep gorge) is the first span connecting the disparate musical worlds of Mako Sica and Hamid Drake. Let us hope it is but the first of many.-Byron Coley, 2018

Remixed, remade, remodeled vinylization of Palberta's Hot On The Beach (2015). The four brutarian tracks on the A-side are shards of songs reductive enough to have earned their 'no wave' deal of approval. Ug-thrust co-existing with a whacked-out feel more in line with late '70s UK scribblers like the Raincoats or Big In Japan. They do a single extended track called 'Prolly For The Best'—something like a dance 12" released by 99 Records, recorded anonymously and very drunkenly by the Y Pants after a show at Experimedia. Edition of 360. 45 RPM.

2nd solo LP by British polymath largely proceeds from the avant-volk tradition 1st explored on The Lighter, reminiscent of Sibylle Baier's deepest darkness, but also includes rougher electric material, with open chord squalls of quiet brutality leavened by sweet vocals & lulling cadences. Includes download.

Renowned for his violin & banjo-playing, this particular album was crafted using solely the button accordion, dedicated to the waltz.

Debut album from upstate NY weirdo rock trio. Squeaky, meandering, aggressive, often melodic post/art-rock in the vein of Kleenex or Rough Trade acts.