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artist: The New Blockaders + The Haters |
After a series of collaborations that seemed to indicate
that Richard Rupenus' longstanding concern may have been running out of steam,
this juggernaut of a live recording (from the Thurston Moore-curated ATP 2006),
is not only reassuring but unquestionably one of the greatest TNB recordings.
With an expanded all-star cast, including Damion Romero, Joke Lanz and Dave
Phillips, 'Das Zerstoren, Zum Gebaren' comes at first in fits and starts,
creaky bursts of electrical interference that quickly begin to cohere into
a giant, ungodly noise mass that's forever stuttering forward, shaking off
pieces of itself that constantly recombine into new shapes. Drone elements
begin to creep in, broken up by cutting feedback blasts and showers of debris.
A glorious piece. The box set version includes, amongst the various postcards,
stickers, and miscellaneous gadgetry, a split 7" named after the geologist
who in an act of, depending on your point of view, heinous vandalism or revolutionary
art heroism, attacked Michaelangelo's 'La Pietà ' with a hammer in the spring
of 1972, claiming to be Jesus Christ. TNB fill one side with a dense, rumbling
wall of sound that sounds great at either speed, while the Haters present
a reading of the Wikipedia entry for the similarly named Laszlo Fejes Toth
(a Hungarian mathematician), which is quickly subsumed by a swarm of electronic
noises.
A landmark release for The New Blockaders, and one of the very best recordings
of this year.
