Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Conspiracy Nation
Author: Daniel Spicer
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Musicians: |
Dave Cross (turntable, Ibanez DM 1100 sam |
Label: |
Qbico |
Magazine Review Date: |
February/2017 |
Catalogue Number: |
2002 |
Best known for his 1977 LP Alabama Feeling, Doyle was the wild-man of second generation US free-jazz, with a raw, primordial tenor tone and unrestrained ferocity of attack perhaps only rivalled by Peter Brötzmann. It's little surprise that, around the turn of the millennium (a dozen or so years before his death in 2014), he was hanging out at basement shows with noise-core kids intent on making sonic trouble. It worked like a charm too. Recorded live in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, in 2002, Conspiracy Nation mashes up clanking percussion, cavernous roars, reverbed-drenched samples of musique concrete and howling organ, over which Doyle lets rip on tenor with gleeful abandon, huffs a spooked flute, and yodels and yowls with vocals possessed. Originally released on coloured and polka-dotted vinyl in an edition of just 400 on the Italian noise label, Qbico, this one is about as far underground as you can go.

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