Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:57:57 +0100 
     From: Andrew Norman (nja@LEICESTER.AC.UK) 
     Subject: Re: Main,shiFt

              Nguyen Van" at Jun 27, 96 09:36:38 pm

 John Nguyen Van  wrote on Thu, 27 Jun 1996
 (Subject: Main,shiFt)
 > Are Main's Hz singles worth getting? How do they sound, compared to
 > Motion Pool or Firmament II?

More abstract even than Firmament II, for the most part.  Sometimes
there's almost a song there, but the "singles" are mostly rustling,
scraping, droning, rattling etc.  Which doesn't mean that they are bad,
far from it, but they are very much an acquired taste.  There's very
little of the more structured "Motion Pool" type of sound.  Robert's
"Indicate" project with Jim O'Rourke takes the abstraction to a further
extreme, to the point where (for me at least) it is uninteresting and
unlistenable (as is Main's contribution to the "Folds and Rhizomes"
compilation, which is little more than a collection of crackling sounds
and silence).  The Orr collaboration with Wire's Gilbert and Paul
Kendall sounds more like "Motion Pool" (judging by the one track I have
heard).

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Andrew Norman, Leicester, England 28/06/96
nja@le.ac.uk, http://www.engg.le.ac.uk/staff/Andrew.Norman/
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