Gyromancy

Gyromancy
Label: Rer
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 752725019828
EAN: 0752725019828
ASIN: B0006NCWXE


Release Date: 2005-02-08

Gyromancy


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Tracks:

  1. Gyromancy A
  2. Gyromancy B
  3. Nailed
  4. Tic

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Still A Revolution.......2006-01-03

The Mnemonists were a collective of visual- and sound-artists from Fort Collins, CO. They released six LPs back in the '80s full of twisted instrumental textures seen in a funhouse mirror. They were the American This Heat, the rock AMM, the art-house Dada AntiMusic. Normal instruments were rarely in evidence -- mostly their scree was an unidentifiable wail of pure noise.

But they weren't mindless. They weren't hard core. Their noise had space around it, and context, and some sections presented surprising calm and beauty.

It was a different way to look at music, a whole different definition of what "music" was. Organized Sound like Tod Dockstader yes, but using 1980s technology and aesthetics instead of IRCAM and Columbia-Princeton. "Highly evolved noise" as my fellow reviewer Lord Chimp put it.

Mnemonists eventually boiled down to Biota -- somewhat less experimental, more focussed -- and I believe all of Biota's seven LPs have seen reissue on CD through Recommended Records.

Sadly, Mnemonists have not been treated so well. What we have are two CDs of their collection, "Horde" and the present one, both sounding as revolutionary today as they did back in the day.

Music Album:

  1. Roadmap of Pain ~ Total Devastation
  2. Stabbing the Drama ~ Soil Work
  3. Yona-Kit Lp ~ Yona-Kit with Brise Glace
  4. Can Our Love... ~ Tindersticks
  5. Ace of Spades ~ Union Avenue
  6. Orbit ~ Harvest Ministers
  7. Rockin' with Raucous: The Early Singles ~ Various Artists
  8. Scattered, Smothered and Covered ~ Hootie & the Blowfish
  9. Who's the Hottie ~ Mount Shasta
  10. Non-Stop Seventies Party

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Jazz Jazz ~ Rob Mullins

Swing 'Til Ya Drop ~ The Zoots & the Swinging Suits, Miss Manhattan

Cookin' With Miles Davis ~ Miles Davis

Elephants' Love Affair ~ Schorn-Puntin Duo

Festival in Havana ~ Various Artists

Essential, Vol. 1 ~ Renaud

Deep Orient, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists

Band Has No Name ~ Band Has No Name

Serie As Melhores ~ Jackson Do Pandeiro

Exalta Samba ~ Exaltasamba