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DAK 027LP
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Limited to 100 LPs. Art by Ira Marcks. Silkscreened by Alan Sherry At SIWA prints. "Human Hair is the duo of Pat Murano and Richard Hoffman, both long running fixtures of the NYC scene, Richard with Sightings, Insayngel, and his recent solo project Organs Obsolete; and Pat with NNCK, Malkuth and his solo alter ego Decimus. Pat was also an auxiliary member of Sightings (one of the best bands to ever come out of NYC!) in the later years of the band and is in a duo with Sightings guitarist Mark Morgan called Key of Shame. Human Hair is another lovely and mutant outgrowth from this shared history. It has all the serpentine and liquid pace you would expect but with a new kind of melancholy I haven't heard in the previously mentioned projects. It's great to hear Richard in such stark relief, his taut and coiled punctuations keeping a kind of slithering sense of time while Pat unfurls vistas that don't exactly spread out as they kind of infinitely zoom in on themselves circling back around and magnifying every little snatch of texture. There's a loose almost psych vibe that, right when you think is gonna settle into a side longer, takes a right-hand turn into some kind of Richard Pinhas on jawharp section that spreads out to the horizon. Side B is (I kind of hate when music writers just mention mash ups of references but I'm not a music writer and when I wrote this in my notes while listening it made too much sense to me to not include. Also I was told that 'anything will suffice'!) P.I.L. playing Ry Cooders Paris Texas soundtrack and I think stands as one of the kind of most 'stranded on an alien planet of nothing' these guys have done. The desolation of space and subsequent tension is accumulative not palpable. It rises with time, slowly, because of all the patience and exploration that Pat and Richard allow for. The lifeline has slipped out of yr hands before you even realize that you're floating in open space. Daksina has really been putting out some amazing records of improvised music that don't sound like what has become the GENRE of improvised music sounds like. It's really personally reinvigorated a lot of my love of improvised music and this Human Hair LP really sits at the top of that." --Bill Nace, 2025
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