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The Bohman Brothers, "A Twist for All Pockets"
Here's a very strange album that resides along a blurry line betweentape collage and electro-acoustic improvised music.
Despite the(intended to be helpful, I'm sure) liner notes describing which trackswere live performances (implying that the remaining tracks were studiocreations), I can't tell what's what here, and I'm going to guess thatthis is the intended effect. A track of plastic fumbling and scrapingof unidentified (and unidentifiable) amplified small objects ispluncked down side-by-side with mercilessly rapid cassette-tapepause-button collage. Through the collages, one can discern elementsthat might have started life as improvised amplified-objectperformances. Another piece might be a live performance overlain with ahectic tape cut-up. Maybe. I'm not entirely sure. Heck, I love it whenI have no idea what's going on, so "A Twist for All Pockets" is justthe kind of thing I can listen to over and over. If I have anycomplaint, it's that the sound quality is less than ideal for music soreliant on small movements and nuance. Particularly dense sections canappear muddy, when some crisp production might have shown the music offmore strongly.
Adam Bohman is part of the long-running UK ensemble Morphogenesis(which also includes Michael Prime, by the way) and has published twosolo CDs and countless cassettes since the early 1980s. Not confined toany one instrument or method, he has recorded pieces for preparedviolin, amplified objects, tape and spoken voice. His brother Jonathanhas, as far as I am aware, not been published before. www.rossbin.com -
Despite the(intended to be helpful, I'm sure) liner notes describing which trackswere live performances (implying that the remaining tracks were studiocreations), I can't tell what's what here, and I'm going to guess thatthis is the intended effect. A track of plastic fumbling and scrapingof unidentified (and unidentifiable) amplified small objects ispluncked down side-by-side with mercilessly rapid cassette-tapepause-button collage. Through the collages, one can discern elementsthat might have started life as improvised amplified-objectperformances. Another piece might be a live performance overlain with ahectic tape cut-up. Maybe. I'm not entirely sure. Heck, I love it whenI have no idea what's going on, so "A Twist for All Pockets" is justthe kind of thing I can listen to over and over. If I have anycomplaint, it's that the sound quality is less than ideal for music soreliant on small movements and nuance. Particularly dense sections canappear muddy, when some crisp production might have shown the music offmore strongly. Adam Bohman is part of the long-running UK ensemble Morphogenesis(which also includes Michael Prime, by the way) and has published twosolo CDs and countless cassettes since the early 1980s. Not confined toany one instrument or method, he has recorded pieces for preparedviolin, amplified objects, tape and spoken voice. His brother Jonathanhas, as far as I am aware, not been published before. www.rossbin.com -
