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HARD NOISE TO SCUMRISE by WILDINGandUNWILDING LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD AT BANDCAMP PAGE - www.wildingandunwilding.bandcamp.com BUY PHYSICAL SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES DIRECT FROM US |
THIS ALBUM IS MAINLY NOISE
LOUD EAR SPLITTING NOISE THERE IS SOME HUMAN SOUND BUT IT’S MAINLY NOISE SCRAPED FROM THE THICK LAYER OF ENCRUSTED SCUM COVERING THE EARTH. MADE FOR YOU WITH LOVE. SO KICK BACK AND ENJOY. THE RECORDINGS USE RAW NOISE MINED FROM THE RICH SEAMS OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE FOOTAGE, POSTED ONLINE BY GEEKS AND ENTHUSIASTS. MRI SCANNERS, LAWN MOWERS, THROATY STEAM CAR AND BIKE ENGINES, DRILLS, BUDDHIST MONKS, WIND CHIMES, BUZZING INSECTS, HAMMERS AND TIGERS.
THEY ARE GARNISHED WITH INSTRUMENTAL BRILIANCE AND VOCAL INTRUSIONS EVERY SO OFTEN.
VIDEO 'SCUM ALWAYS RISES' IS THE LAST TRACK FROM THE ALBUM -
EDITED AS A SINGLE IN A CYNICAL ATTEMPT TO GET PLAY ON HOSPITAL RADIO.
'DANCE OF THE LONGE NECKS' WILL NEVER BE PLAYED ON HOSPITAL (OR ANY OTHER FORM OF RADIO)
LOUD EAR SPLITTING NOISE THERE IS SOME HUMAN SOUND BUT IT’S MAINLY NOISE SCRAPED FROM THE THICK LAYER OF ENCRUSTED SCUM COVERING THE EARTH. MADE FOR YOU WITH LOVE. SO KICK BACK AND ENJOY. THE RECORDINGS USE RAW NOISE MINED FROM THE RICH SEAMS OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE FOOTAGE, POSTED ONLINE BY GEEKS AND ENTHUSIASTS. MRI SCANNERS, LAWN MOWERS, THROATY STEAM CAR AND BIKE ENGINES, DRILLS, BUDDHIST MONKS, WIND CHIMES, BUZZING INSECTS, HAMMERS AND TIGERS.
THEY ARE GARNISHED WITH INSTRUMENTAL BRILIANCE AND VOCAL INTRUSIONS EVERY SO OFTEN.
VIDEO 'SCUM ALWAYS RISES' IS THE LAST TRACK FROM THE ALBUM -
EDITED AS A SINGLE IN A CYNICAL ATTEMPT TO GET PLAY ON HOSPITAL RADIO.
'DANCE OF THE LONGE NECKS' WILL NEVER BE PLAYED ON HOSPITAL (OR ANY OTHER FORM OF RADIO)
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WILDING and UNWILDING 'HARD NOISE TO SCUMRISE'
(HEAVY DUTY NOISE MASH UPS)
track list
THE COLDEST OF ALL COLD MONSTERS
HAVING A BIT OF A LIE DOWN
BUILDING THE GREAT BEAR
DANCE OF THE LONG NECKS
COCKTAILS ON THE BANKS OF A FROZEN RIVER
RADICALISATION NUMBER NINE
I’M FIXING TO LEAVE YOU
NIGHT BUS TO HARLOW
SCUM ALWAYS RISES
PRODUCED/CREATED by WILLIAM WILDING
FEATURING -
TIM HILL (SAX - 2 & 4)
SPRINGBO (LYRICS/VOCALS - 3)
TOM FAWCETT and BOB CUBITT (GUITARS -5)
RHYS TRIMBLE (LYRICS/VOCALS - 6)
DAVID J (DRONE from a bottom drawer - 6)
LESTER SQUARE (GUITAR SOLO - 7)
YURI LANDMAN (GUITAR - 9)
OLIVE CROSSLEY (PIANO - 9)
ANDREW SPILLER (ORCHESTRATION - 9)
(HEAVY DUTY NOISE MASH UPS)
track list
THE COLDEST OF ALL COLD MONSTERS
HAVING A BIT OF A LIE DOWN
BUILDING THE GREAT BEAR
DANCE OF THE LONG NECKS
COCKTAILS ON THE BANKS OF A FROZEN RIVER
RADICALISATION NUMBER NINE
I’M FIXING TO LEAVE YOU
NIGHT BUS TO HARLOW
SCUM ALWAYS RISES
PRODUCED/CREATED by WILLIAM WILDING
FEATURING -
TIM HILL (SAX - 2 & 4)
SPRINGBO (LYRICS/VOCALS - 3)
TOM FAWCETT and BOB CUBITT (GUITARS -5)
RHYS TRIMBLE (LYRICS/VOCALS - 6)
DAVID J (DRONE from a bottom drawer - 6)
LESTER SQUARE (GUITAR SOLO - 7)
YURI LANDMAN (GUITAR - 9)
OLIVE CROSSLEY (PIANO - 9)
ANDREW SPILLER (ORCHESTRATION - 9)
Review from 'The Sound Projector' online music magazine.
(released 2020), carries the unappetising title Hard Noise To Scumrise, and is credited to Wilding and Unwilding, indicating our main man is supported by a number of able collaborators on musical instruments, vocals, poetry, lyrics, and home-made devices…some of these geniuses, many of them with fake names and aliases, may be depicted on the inner gatefold spread of the album, and a less prepossessing set of punky diehards past their sell-by date you could never meet. Yet the record itself is great, a truly absurd and far-out collection of mechanical noises spliced up with musical interludes to deliver a startling and perplexing listen. Wilding and crew derive some of this racket from machines, and make no secret of this – drills, hammers, lathes, engines, coin-sorting machines, lawnmowers and foghorns all surface in the swampy soup, with many if not all of the “samples” found online, on websites curated by enthusiasts who “collect” this sort of thing. Poignantly, one of these machines was in the hospital, captured from an MRI scanner at at time when Wilding himself was admitted for cancer treatment.When these found sounds collide with the unkempt music of this crew of misfit players, the results can be uneven and mixed, but when things coalesce they do so brilliantly, with flashes of genius and, in places, something genuinely unsettling. It’s a novel approach to the “noise” genre for sure, and arguably much more approachable than the airless and joyless extremes of “harsh noise wall”, assuming that’s still a thing…useful notes indicate the milieu and backgrounds of the oddball contributors in Wilding’s unruly mob, including the instrument builder Yuri Landman (who did it for Sonic Youth and Melt-Banana), American comedian Springbo who’s also an improviser and songwriter, and Lester Square, co-founder of The Monochrome Set, post-punk faves dating from around the same early 1980s period as The Native Hipsters. A decidedly strange and compelling collection of rambling noise results from all this mashing-up and pooling of ill-assorted talents.
(released 2020), carries the unappetising title Hard Noise To Scumrise, and is credited to Wilding and Unwilding, indicating our main man is supported by a number of able collaborators on musical instruments, vocals, poetry, lyrics, and home-made devices…some of these geniuses, many of them with fake names and aliases, may be depicted on the inner gatefold spread of the album, and a less prepossessing set of punky diehards past their sell-by date you could never meet. Yet the record itself is great, a truly absurd and far-out collection of mechanical noises spliced up with musical interludes to deliver a startling and perplexing listen. Wilding and crew derive some of this racket from machines, and make no secret of this – drills, hammers, lathes, engines, coin-sorting machines, lawnmowers and foghorns all surface in the swampy soup, with many if not all of the “samples” found online, on websites curated by enthusiasts who “collect” this sort of thing. Poignantly, one of these machines was in the hospital, captured from an MRI scanner at at time when Wilding himself was admitted for cancer treatment.When these found sounds collide with the unkempt music of this crew of misfit players, the results can be uneven and mixed, but when things coalesce they do so brilliantly, with flashes of genius and, in places, something genuinely unsettling. It’s a novel approach to the “noise” genre for sure, and arguably much more approachable than the airless and joyless extremes of “harsh noise wall”, assuming that’s still a thing…useful notes indicate the milieu and backgrounds of the oddball contributors in Wilding’s unruly mob, including the instrument builder Yuri Landman (who did it for Sonic Youth and Melt-Banana), American comedian Springbo who’s also an improviser and songwriter, and Lester Square, co-founder of The Monochrome Set, post-punk faves dating from around the same early 1980s period as The Native Hipsters. A decidedly strange and compelling collection of rambling noise results from all this mashing-up and pooling of ill-assorted talents.