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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Chimärendämmerung Format: CD Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hototogisu are Marcia Bassett and Matthew Bower, and they dwell upon two continents (Marcia in Brooklyn NY and Matthew in Leeds UK). Both share rich discographical heritage. Marcia has recorded with numerous labels (Siltbreeze, Timelag, Eclipse, Troubleman Unlimited, etc.) with UN, GHQ and the Double Leopards, and Matthew with Total, Skullflower, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra and more. A Wikipedia entry in his name clearly (sic) illustrates his cultural heft: Bowers huge discography of visceral, free drone-rock is probably the most formidable of its kind and he was rightly considered in 2005 by The Wire to be one of the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s (issue 259) . Chimärendämmerung is the 3rd Hototogisu release on Destijl and the 5 untitled walls of vertical viola drone/overtone, lapped by shifting electronic waves of feedback, blackened guitars, rhinegold cast deep into dying rivers, an instrumental cycle of conflict of the birth of a supreme aristocratic beauty into a fallen world, and its inevitable conflagration, then a glimmer of hope of escape from the cycle, in tune w/ the breath of the cosmos, like a glacial reimagining of Van der Graafs A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, and it represents a current plateau for the duo." - Destijl. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Prayer Rug Exorcism Format: CD Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Most barbaric installment yet in the blood n groan saga initiated with Ghost From The Sun; Prayer Rug Exorcism is a monolithic single disc in four parts. Opening with a brooding nocturnal labyrinth, and ascending through a dark power-drone into sky-high ribbons of blasphemous feedback traceries, and the annihilating ghostly machine clank of part 4, like TGs old analog set up, running freeform and haunted in a hermetically sealed bunker. Recorded: The Black Chapel, Leeds; CCA, Glasgow; Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, and Brudenell Social Club, Leeds in 2005. Full color deluxe artwork delineates the unusual arcana, and some new clues for the pictorially fetishistic. Edition of 1000 copies." - Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Sculpture Built Upon The Graves Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "2006 cdr, recorded in bradford england, except for live track paris, noharm recorded at instants chavires, paris, spring 2006. A four movement midnight symphony of haunted electricity. one of the most evocative and strange hototogisu recordings." - Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Under the Rose Format: LP Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Hototogisus first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom! Under the Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts Malignant Coronation and Origami Skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortexes and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons . Comes in black jacket with a full color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600." - Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Ghosts of the Sun Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Hototogisu masterfully create a dense sediment of Teutonic drone with the thickest layers of guitar, vocals and electronics. The Hototogisu are obviously seasoned sonic travelers, featuring the seminal legend Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). Ghosts Of The Sun is one enormous composition, nearing two hours in length, unfolded and nailed together in seven movements. Starting with a slow drone electronic crawl and climaxing with crackling bone percussion buried howls of haunted minds, Ghosts Of The Sun cries out from beneath an earthquake of guitar feedback and distortion. Ghosts Of The Sun compresses eternity, from the creation of humanity to its own destruction, into seven parts on one double album. This is epic and total sonic overload, by way of The Hototogisu." - Important. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Pale Fatal Sister Format: Double LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three-day period of hermetic isolation, while snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release." -Important |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Some Blood Will Stick Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). Theyve been laying down billowing sheets of Teutonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005) with one additional track." - Important. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: s/t Format: Mag Label: WFOT Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Twenty full color images produced by Marica Bassett and Matthew Bower from 2003 to 2005. Recommended for late night viewings when the windows are lit and the television is off. Limited to 125." - WFOT. |