besom presse announces "ask the axes," the first collaborative release by the duo of experimental bagpiper david watson and famed percussionist of the necks, tony buck. watson and buck’s premiere recording documents two twenty-plus minute tracks featuring the hallucinatory sound palette of the highland bagpipes, drums and percussion.
ask the axes leads with watson blowing out a grounding and sonorous fundamental tone. moments later it’s redoubled with the serrated buzz of a higher register saw wave, suggesting a startling revelation of the untapped potential of the highland pipes. as watson steadily accumulates layers, the sound takes on a prismatic effect. from the droning choir of reeds, phantasmic overtones suddenly surface and are submerged in a fizzing backdrop like aural phosphenes. when buck enters he manages to do so without interrupting watson’s uncanny suspension of time. his toms and snare splinter with a giddy phasing effect as he shakes a number of bells into a thrumming substratum.
On side b, the duo evolve into an ecstatic kinesis..., expanding and accelerating sensations of space and time. buck’s measured crescendo conjures the trance-inducing meditations of the sufi dervishes while watson’s pipes peal out glossolalic spasms that sound like a long lost maclise ritual. as the record closes in heaves and gasps, a warm afterglow settles in ahead of a startling conclusion.
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2012 Late Winter Tales 2014 Song Of The Highest Tower
2010 Explorer's Club: 7. Belfast- Reykjavik
2019 Gestures
1981 The Serpent (In Quicksilver)
2002 Harold Budd, Bill Nelson & Fila Brazillia
- Three White Roses & A Budd
https://www.norentrecords.com/
released September 21, 2019
besom presse announces "ask the axes," the first collaborative release by the duo of experimental bagpiper david watson and famed percussionist of the necks, tony buck. watson and buck’s premiere recording documents two twenty-plus minute tracks featuring the hallucinatory sound palette of the highland bagpipes, drums and percussion.
ask the axes leads with watson blowing out a grounding and sonorous fundamental tone. moments later it’s redoubled with the serrated buzz of a higher register saw wave, suggesting a startling revelation of the untapped potential of the highland pipes. as watson steadily accumulates layers, the sound takes on a prismatic effect. from the droning choir of reeds, phantasmic overtones suddenly surface and are submerged in a fizzing backdrop like aural phosphenes. when buck enters he manages to do so without interrupting watson’s uncanny suspension of time. his toms and snare splinter with a giddy phasing effect as he shakes a number of bells into a thrumming substratum.
On side b, the duo evolve into an ecstatic kinesis..., expanding and accelerating sensations of space and time. buck’s measured crescendo conjures the trance-inducing meditations of the sufi dervishes while watson’s pipes peal out glossolalic spasms that sound like a long lost maclise ritual. as the record closes in heaves and gasps, a warm afterglow settles in ahead of a startling conclusion.
2006 Lure The Fox 2008 Big Star
2009 Sing With Me
1999 For Him And The Girls 2008 Los Manlicious
2008 Between The Beautifuls
Recorded 1962 - 1977 Hollywood Dreamer
2015 Acid Reflux EP
2017 Ancients EP
2009 Schematics
part 1 recorded 7. September 2019 at Consul80, Stavanger
part 2 recorded 5. September 2019 at Siloen, Drammen
2003 Wild Dogs With X-Ray Eyes
2000 We Love The City
2005 The Ballad Of Nora Lee
2007 Look Out!
All their albums are NYOP on Bandcamp, bit of a bargain if you ask me.
2008 Hymns In The Key Of 666
2013 Foreign Popularity
King Crimson – Audio Diary 2014-2018
Agócs at Emusers