Harsh
- 艺人
- Keith Rowe
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Grob
- 发行时间
- 2000年11月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by François Couture
Keith Rowe, active in avant-garde music circles since the 1960s, gained more notoriety in the late 1990s as he was recognized as a pioneer of electronic free improvisation by musicians like Jim O'Rourke and Kevin Drumm. Four releases ed his recent work in 2000: one with the Music in Movement Electronic Orchestra (on Grob), one with Günter Müller and Taku Sugimoto (on Erstwhile), another with Evan Parker (on Potlatch), and finally Harsh, Guitar Solo, only his second solo recording (after the 1990 A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality). For anybody wanting to learn what Rowe's distinctive sound is, this CD is the most eloquent. Alone on stage in a cold garage in Köln, Rowe used extended techniques on his guitar, flooding the audience with electronically derived sounds the listener, comfortably seated in his living room, can hardly relate to his experience of the electric guitar. Rowe opens a world of sonorities, at times almost ambient, at other downright brutal. The track titles are eloquent: "Quite," "Very," and "Extremely" (harsh, of course). While the improvisers work on the duo date Dark Rags (with Evan Parker) often remained confined to providing eerie atmospheres, here it takes all the available room. Loops of scratches, buzzes, and other electric noises (including radio static) serve as the background for extreme guitar manipulations. But the music always remains tolerable (unlike, say, Merzbow). Rowe's goal is not to drive listeners out of the room, but to extend the guitar's language and to express himself through half-organized, half-chaotic noise. The 28-minute "Very" (actually harsher than "Extremely") is everything one could expect from an improviser of such experience: dynamic, wide-ranged, focused, and exciting. The album sports cartoon drawings by Keith Rowe himself.
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