Label: No Quarter
Cat no: NOQ093-1
Format : LP LP
Country US
Released: 2024
Genre: Rock
Style : Art Rock, Post Rock, Avantgarde
Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
Comments: Brand New, sealed.
MORE INFO:
Basic is a mind-meld between Chris Forsyth, his frequent running partner (and formidable 6-string thinker) Nick Millevoi, and Mikel Patrick Avery (Natural Information Society).
This Is Basic, their debut album, is a complex and entrancing instrumental LP recasting forgotten scraps of guitar history into a moving mosaic of strings, skins and electronics.
Taking inspiration (and their name) from the 1984 Robert Quine/Fred Maher album ("Basic"), Forsyth and Millevoi got together for a run of low-key jam sessions using an Alesis drum machine for rhythm tracks and forging a collaborative language from angular polyrhythms, pulsing baritone-guitar lines, and shimmering chorus-pedal washes (another stylistic nod, this time to the glistening post-punk of the Durutti Column and numerous 4AD bands).
Avery was soon enlisted on drum kit a setup that quickly morphed into a single drum, bell, and a bespoke electronics rig of his own creation. The trio quickly flowered into an improvisational swirl of disorienting electronics, hypnotic throb, and dense flanged-guitar harmonics: three unique voices spinning a complex conversation of textures and rhythms.
1. For Stars of the Air
2. Nerve Time 5:04
3. Positive Halfway
4. Last Resort of the Gambling Man
5. Versatile Switch
6. New Auspicious 6:54