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#26
Temperatures "Ymir" LP
"I'm glad T. Moore talked about this LP for his "Favorite New
Music" section of Pitchfork's Guest List, because I'd been listening
to it for a couple weeks myself and still wasn't really sure who or what
it was. There was no info on the record or the package it came in other
than the band name and title, silk-screened on the back cover in a slightly
confusing triangle shape. All I had to go on was name of the label, Heat
Retention Records, because it was typewritten on the back, and I already
knew 'em from their excellent recent Church of Yuh LP release by the George
Steeltoe Ensemble. After listening to this new LP once, I thought it might
involve some of the same players, because it also combines noise and jazz
in some rather daring and surprising ways, but, according to Mr. Moore,
Temperatures are a duo from the UK, and the more I listen, the more obvious
it becomes that they are totally onto their own thing. At first, side
one of Ymir was almost too much, some sort of shuddering noise piece that
moves very slow chord changes through a severe filter of obfuscation.
It took me awhile to notice that some live free jazz drumming was also
in the mix, somehow eventually taking the whole thing into tranced-out
slobbering HC song territory, and then ending it all with seance noise
over which the singer dude keeps saying shit. Whoah, and side two was
perfect right away, starting with a hot double-bass-and-drums steeplechase
not unlike a William Parker and Hamid Drake duo before morphing into some
burning noise with more bizarre hardcore vibes. Apparently they only made
100 of these, so jeez, I feel lucky and I'd definitely like to hear more...
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