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01. BLOOD QUARTET - Bloodlines
02. BLOOD QUARTET - String Theory
03. BLOOD QUARTET - Only Lovers
04. BLOOD QUARTET - Dark Energy 74
05. BLOOD QUARTET - Dragon Tree
06. BLOOD QUARTET - Blood House
07. BLOOD QUARTET - Soma
08. BLOOD QUARTET - Fly Your Eyes
09. BLOOD QUARTET - Rare Room 11
10. BLOOD QUARTET - Gravity Pull
ARTIST
TITLE
Deep Red
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
FTR 283LP FTR 283LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/14/2016

"Debut LP, following a cassette, by Mark Cunningham's latest unit, Blood Quartet. Based in Barcelona, the mostly-instrumental band plays insanely great avant garde rock music, with Mark's electro-Miles trumpet spread across the top like brass icing. Cunningham has been based in Spain for many years now, and his groups there (Raeo, Bestia Ferida, etc.) have been excellent, but Blood Quartet seems like the apex of a musical quest he started with Don King, following the dissolution of his legendary NYC band, Mars. The music they play has a similar cinematic scope to the material Mark composed for his 1997 solo album, Blood River Dusk (FTR 098LP). But where that album created an ominous soundtrack for living, Blood Quartet makes an explosive syncretic fusion. Angular no wave guitar lines weave through bass-heavy rhythms, and Mark's trumpet achieves something akin to what Chet Baker might have done if he'd flipped out and gotten into the French acid scene in '68. Light, strangely wound tones that really don't sound like anyone else I can name. Candid Coll's post-tongue vocals, and the synth work by both Kike Bela and Lluis Rueda completely flesh everything out in a spectacular way. The music on Deep Red starts off sounding subtle, but it grows in power with every spin, and will eventually suck you down into its magnificent vortex. Bitchen." -- Byron Coley, 2016. Edition of 500.