HELEN WATSON – LONG
DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 1 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)
Long Division With
Remainders is an ambitious project from Front And Follow records that involves
a number of exciting electronic musicians all jamming and reworking four pieces
of music and moulding them in their own fashion. It is similar to the Root experiment done by Thurston Moore a few
years only, only more ambitious.
This is the first
entrant into the series. It comes from
Helen Watson who is described as a “cultural icon to many”. It is no secret she is the wife of the
person that runs Front And Follow, which certainly will not have hurt her
chances at being involved.
Her version of events
arrives with minimal scales and a percolating sound that slowly/gradually
builds to a shot of white noise akin to the arrival of a train. From here it becomes a more sombre and
sedate affair with a pulsing arc sounding like the spaceship from Close
Encounters Of A Third Kind that crescends into a full on invasion. The result is aural debris.
For the third track
succinct strings dominate proceedings giving the pace an almost festive feel
prior to somebody in the room suddenly switching on a dot matrix printer and
amplified blender. This is the sound of
very noisy neighbours.
The first version
comes to a close with more overdriven instrumentation that serves to make one
weapon sound entirely like another. The
gloom and menace is overwhelming as what appears to be a cowbell rings with
regularity seemingly indicating nastiness to come. Duck and cover.
A perfection adoption.
Thesaurus moment:
infraction.
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