JG Thirlwell has turned the idea of the remix album on it's head with VEIN. To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. This is not LOVE remixed, it is LOVE fractured and rekimdled by some of today's most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey thru sound and emotion.
Jay Wasco has created an overture, blending musical elements and recasting and juxtaposing themes until it becomes like a broadway opus with an explosive prog coda.
Fennesz has distressed and granulated the track Pareidolia into a textural dream.
Mike Patton unshackles How to Vibrate like the monster from The Host mud wrestling with Hans Zimmer on the set of a Dario Argento film.
JG Thirlwell's extensive reworking of his own Mon Agonie Douce, a dizzying waltz that takes us from the cobblestone streets of Montmartre to the back alleys of Istanbul in a roller coaster that erupts into a exotic caco-phonic splendor.
Tom Recchion has taken elements from each song on the album and refashioned them into something beyond a mash up, it is more an psycho-acoustic meditative extrusion.
Tweaker ramps up the blister on the already blustering Aladdin Reverse.
Japanese artist Tujiko Nuriko weaves her magic into a breathing, sinuous remix of the sultry Dont Want Me Anymore.
Jason Forrest's take on Not Adam careens between searing breakbeats and fluttering
harpsichordal flourishes.
TRZTN's turn on the track Thrush, a duet between Thirlwell and Elysian Fields' Jennifer Charles, is a claustrophobic symphonic pop stomp.
Matmos' abstractification weaves the Foetus track into a collision of the flamboyant and the unsettling.
... and so much more.
As a bonus, the album also features the award-winning animated video of Time Marches On by Swedish director Sam Sohlberg.
The sleeve of VEIN is once again designed by renaissance man Thirlwell in his signature palette of red. white and black. It juxtaposes design homages from Op art, constructivism and sportswear design via JG's unique vision, and represents the 18th instance of naming a Foetus album with a four-letter one-syllable title.
With the modern times upon us, and the threat of digital piracy looming in the foreground, Thirlwell has decided to take a new approach to promoting his record. There will be NO promo CDs sent out ahead of the release. There will be no music sent out AT ALL except for an audio trailer that Foetus has ever so carefully sculpted, comprised of bits of all the mixes, that in essence both showcases the record and is in itself another LOVE remix.
track listing
01. Pareidolia - remixed by Fennesz
02. How To Vibrate - remixed by Mike Patton
03. Mon Agonie Douce - remixed by J.G.Thirlwell
04. L'overture - remix by Jay Wasco, contains elements of several songs from the LOVE album
05. Dont want me anymore -remixed by Tujiko Nuriko
06. (Not Adam) - remixed by Jason Forrest
07. Thrush - featuring guest vocalist Jennifer Charles remixed by TRZTN of Services
08. Aladdin Reverse - remixed by Tweaker
09. Not in Yr Hands - remixed by Matmos
10. Corrodia Gravis - remix by Tom Recchion contains elements of several songs from the LOVE album
The remixers (and guests) need no introduction, but here we go anyway:
Fennesz - Austrian guitar/electronics guru has made classic albums Endless Summer and Venice for the Mego and touch labels, collaborator of David Sylvian, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Keith Rowe and many more.
Mike Patton - Proprietor of the Ipecac record label, vocal pyrotrechnician and experimental composer, member of Fantomas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Mr Bungle, Lovage, Faith No More etc.
Jay Wasco - Mad genius multi instrumentalist (who plays several instruments at the same time), fronted the sadly underrated group Johnny Skilsaw.
Tujiko Nuriko - Japanese experimental avant-pop recording artist with albums on Mego and Thrill Jockey.
Jason Forrest - aka Donna Summer, proprietor of the Cock Rock Disco record label, breakcore cut up artist / maniac extraordinaire.
TRZTN - aka Tristan Bechet, member of Touch of Class recording artists Services, former member of Flux Information Sciences.
Jennifer Charles - Belle chanteuse of supremely scintillating NYC band Elysian Fields.
Tweaker - aka Chris Vrenna, former drummer to NIN, has done remixes and production for U2, David Bowie and many more.
Matmos - Experimental electronic duo from SF renowned for bizarre sample-source material and multi media performance. Bjork collaborators.
Tom Recchion - Experimental LA musician and member of LAFMS who has collaborated with everyone from Paul McCarthy to Keiji Haino.
No comments:
Post a Comment