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FREE CHOICE & SUPER STAR split cassette AVAILABLE NOW. Each contribute a single 12 minute piece per side. $5 (Australian) or For Trade.
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For a descrpition of FREE CHOICE here is one, not written by me I may add;
"Jarrod Zladic (of Fabulous Diamonds and Oh Belgium) makes solo improvised keyboard pieces whose nearest point of reference would be Cluster or Terry Riley if it weren't so unique. Its nostalgic and futuristic at the same time. Complex phrasing keeps splitting from the central mass, time lagging and shedding skin after skin. Looping out of time with its self, tripping upwards. These pieces are infinitely dense but weightless, pure and resolute they express big things but in a concise unlaboured way."
(from: http://thebiclops.blogspot.com/)
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Review from ThreeThousand:
This limited edition, lime-green-coloured split cassette is a strange and compelling mix of ambient sound concerns and punkish performance technique. Local acts Free Choice and Super Star have both contributed a single, twelve-minute track – one per side – and both are totally Cactus in terms of whacked-out inventiveness and sheer, brilliant conceit.
A-side, ‘Aztec Horse Hat’, by Free Choice (aka Jarrod Zlatic), is analogue-electronic, phrase-repetitive and seriously trance-enducing. Like the outlines of great landforms seen from the windows of a speeding car, huge two-note synth lines change gradually and awesomely throughout, while pulses from a treated rhythm box vanish endlessly beneath the wheels. Imagine Klause Schulze on a crank come down, or Cluster’s Zuckerzeit dubbed to two-track cassette.
Super Star’s B-side,’Wandering Frond’, is less abstract but just as heavy on the spaced-out repetition. Esther Edquist lays droning trumpet and vocal mumblings on top Kieran Hegarty’s repeating guitar patterns, and in between there are all sorts of scratches, broken-junk and incidental noises. Again, repetitive short phrases constantly build up and fall away to imagine a vast, alternative sound landscape – this time set in a reflective, dreamy-edged and dusty basement.
By Mark Gomes
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ALBERTS BASEMENT VINYL BENEFIT PARTIES. FEBRUARY 16 FROM 3PM IRENES WAREHOUSE AT 5 PITT STREET EAST BRUNSWICK MUSIC IS KESBAND, HEY LADY 2 LEOPARDS!, FREE CHOICE, SUPER STAR, THE SPACE CADETS, YOUNG ROMANTIX, AKTION UNIT, OK VANCOUVER OK AND IMPROV CLOCKS. ----- FEBRUARY 24 FROM 330PM AT EMPRESS 714 NICHOLSON STREET NORTH FITZROY MUSIC IS MORNING AND THE SLEEPY KIDS, LEHMANN SMITH, MIRROR FARM, II, TEAM RED, OK VANCOUVER OK, AGENT COOPERS COFFEE, JUNIOR B AND FULL UGLY. ------ MARCH 08 FROM 4PM AT CATFOOD PRESS 289 LYGON ST EAST BRUNSWICK MUSIC IS THE FRIGHTENING LIGHTS, FULL UGLY, IMPROV CLOCKS, THE ORPHAN PROJECT, ADRIAN SLATTERY AND OTHERS. -------- MARCH 13 AT GLITCH 318 ST GEORGES ROAD IS VINYL RECORD LISTENING BENEFIT PARTY WITH OVER 10 SEXUAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL GUEST DJ'S PLAYING YOU SOME OF THEIR FAVOURITE MUSIC. ------ALL BENEFITS ARE $5 ENTRANCE ALL FUNDS GO TOWARDS PRESSING OF LOCAL VINYL COMPILATIONS. xo
Jarrod Here's a flier i made for the Catfood show. It features a homoerotic jackal - i save this aforementioned jackal for special occasions. Thought i'd get it to you nice n early -Steph
