Not just a triumphant return but a magnificant album by
anyone's standards, NY via NZ noise rockers Bailterspace release their new album Strobosphere in
to the stratosphere today.
It has been thirteen long years. What were they doing? Where
have they been? Somewhere, perhaps under a Manhattan substructure, or maybe
above a spiral nebula, we know they have been doing something. But what?
Probably checked out. Gone exploring. Pioneering tonal
semiotics, developing rhythmic syntax, plugging in, turning up - creating sheer
bloody massive slabs of awesomeness. What atmospheric resonance or
thermodynamic vibration have they traversed? Who knows? Just listen. Turn up.
And imagine.
Strobosphere does not exist in a vacuum. Like
all codes, communication plus context equals meaning. Logic, signs,
systems – both human and non-human - it is a grand narrative. Date. Time.
Location.
Before Bailterspace there was The Gordons. Formed 1980,
Christchurch, New Zealand. Future Shock 1981, still
electrifying. Then, there was Nelsh Bailter Space. Then Bailter Space. Alister
Parker (guitar, bass), Brent McLachlan (drums/percussion, samples) John
Halvorsen (bass, guitar) - the core. Hamish Kilgour (The Clean) and Ross
Humphries (The Terminals, the Pin Group) came. Then they went.
Over seventeen years Bailterspace mobilized recording
technologies to capture audio. They organised noise. Audio was reproduced
into seven different longplayer phonographs. Tanker, Thermos, Robot
World, Votura, Wammo, Capsul and Solar
3. Plus manifold extended player (EP) phonographs. These were disseminated
via Matador Records and Flying Nun Records. The populace procured the multiple
reproductions of this audio. They were amazed at what they heard.
From Christchurch, which is also the only air departure
terminal for Antarctica, the band migrated north. First Wellington in New
Zealand, then New York, in the United States of America. In many urban
settlements Bailterspace performed their work to the public. It was a mosaic of
radiant frequencies. Metrics and decibels. In 1999 the mass media
communications outlet Pitchfork described them as "a huge mess of sound
that's simultaneously beautiful, jagged, atonal, and supremely melodic"
Then, shortly thereafter, they disappeared. Silence.
Thirteen years.
But now, they have returned. They have delivered. Strobosphere.
Eleven songs. Produced, recorded and mixed by Bailterspace. Mastered by Brian
Pyle.
Artist: Bailtersapce
Album: Strobosphere
Release date: August 21, 2012
Label: Fire Records
Track Listing:
01. Things That We Found
02. Strobosphere
03. Blue Star
04. Polarize
05. No Sense
06. Meeting Place
07. Island
08. OP1
09. Live By The Ocean
10. Dset
11. Would We Share
Album: Strobosphere
Release date: August 21, 2012
Label: Fire Records
Track Listing:
01. Things That We Found
02. Strobosphere
03. Blue Star
04. Polarize
05. No Sense
06. Meeting Place
07. Island
08. OP1
09. Live By The Ocean
10. Dset
11. Would We Share
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