18 February 2024

Twilight Memories of the 3 Suns 'Dogs' (Audial Dowry Label)

 

Side A
This tape starts things off with some excellent sounding droning & whining multi-tracked sax.  There's a plucked and strangely played winding bass guitar under the mix. Bagpipe is listed in the liners but I'm not sure if I've heard it yet.  Next it moves into ghostly waves of electronics and a unsettling shimmering.  Small dogs are doing 'vocals'. There is literally barking at this point. Then into a Sci-fi space ritual.

Side B
Continued howling, whining and droning wind instruments & electronics.   Bag pipes audible now, and have the sound for which they are traditionally known but are not playing anything that resembles traditional music.  Something very alien here.  Dog yipping under the mix.  This side wobbles from an enveloping tension-creating drone to a kind of wailing, slow & whining  scuzz-jazz.   Theres an unexpected and possibly humorous musical passage  that fades in and out at one point.  The mix on this is incredible.  The art work/notes are cryptic & fitting.  My only complaint is that this isn't a 120 min tape.

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