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And greetings to you...
Originally 3, sometimes 1, but essentially 2, we, Acolytes Action Squad, find ourselves on a long format quest for something elusive beyond adoration as entertainment purveyors, not that we don't purvey "entertainment"....
4 releases into the game and several sidesteps into other bands, projects and interests, we're still alive, looking for new language and no more certain of the essential health of "underground" music than we were when we started.
Hit up the Early Winter Recordings website here for details of our current release WINKLE TIME WITH ACOLYTES ACTION SQUAD, and they'll sell you one at an extremely reasonable price (six quid or euro/dollar equivalent), and listen to the offerings in the box for a few clues to our present and our past. Our future will be different again, unscripted, highly volatile and likely to squeeze us into realms which are altogether lacking in revenue enhancement capabilities.
Peace.
below is an excerpt of the press release for 'Winkle Time':
"It was the cause of some small consternation when James Green (of EWR) sent me a CD asking me to write a press release on a band that I knew nowt about. Some brief biographical information in the accompanying letter indicated that they had some personnel connections to Green’s previous musical concern, Big Eyes, and that ain’t surprising as both bands seem to share a predilection for channelling certain characteristically Antipodean atmospheres. But where Big Eyes basked in the kind of ragged, pathetic beauty of such string capitulators as Dirty 3 or the Hungry Ghosts, Acolytes Action Squad seem to swim in much murkier rivers, recalling the meticulously deconstructed miniatures of astral arbiters such as Alastair Galbraith or Peter Jefferies. In fact, on Winkle Time, their debut CD on Early Winter/ Terraas Recordings, a whole spectrum of avant traditions are reconstituted and pished out again.
From the opening sound of the raked ribcage of a Salvation Army Store piano the sound passes through heavy hoodoo, Gris Gris stylee drum breaks (Letters to the Master), radio interference from the far side of the distant blue (Check: Weigh in), weird moments of regressive sing song clarity (Music for Perspex) all suffused with all kinds of angelic debris and zoological whoopee (The Yak’s Head/ Yak Buttons). And underpinning every stylophone/ flute duet (Against Old Masters) and every passage of potato-tongue sound poetry is a strong melodic sensibility that joins the dots between Dr John, Dr Hook and Dr Harold Shipman.
This disk don’t really sound like anything ever to have been sired in the City of Steel….amen to that!"
- Alex Neilson (founding member of Scatter, Motor Ghost, Tight Meat, Directing Hand, and a frequent accomplice of Alasdair Roberts, Richard Youngs, Jandek and Will Oldham)
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