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01. Alvin Curran - Bay Area 1
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02. Alvin Curran - Rollings
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03. Alvin Curran - Bay Area 2
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04. Alvin Curran - End Zone
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05. Alvin Curran - Field It More
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ARTIST
CURRAN, ALVIN
TITLE
Drumming Up Trouble
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 094LP
BT 094LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
9/30/2022
Black Truffle announce
Drumming Up Trouble
, the first release of previously unissued music by
Alvin Curran
on the label. Collecting works recorded between 2018-2021 and a side-long epic dating back to the early '80s, as the title suggests,
Drumming Up Trouble
focuses on a hitherto almost unknown aspect of Curran's encyclopedic and omnivorous musical world: his experiments with sampled and synthesized percussion. As Curran's wonderful, wildly sweeping liner notes make clear, his fascination with drumming belongs to the radical investigation of music's fundamental elements that has marked his output since the beginnings of
MEV
, who aimed (as he says in a recent interview) to return "in some collective way to a non-existent start time in the history of human music". Whatever kind of music our proto-human ancestors played, he writes, "drums were front and center in the mix. Drums rule!" In a paradox typical of Curran's approach,
Drumming Up Trouble
interrogates this most ancient dimension of music with contemporary technology. On the first side, you hear recent pieces performed using the sampling software and full-size MIDI keyboard setup Curran has refined since the 1980s. Two of them are wild real-time improvisations, primarily utilizing an enormous bank of hip-hop samples. Building from polyrhythmic layers of drum machine fragments to wild cacophonies of clashing vocal samples, scratching, and frantic pitch shifting, these energetic and at times hilarious pieces occupy a space somewhere between
John Oswald
's
Plunderphonics
,
Pat Thomas
and
Matt Wand
in the
Tony Oxley Quartet
, and the propulsive Kudoro/Grime fusion of Lisbon's Príncipe label. They are improvisations are accompanied by two austere, minimal compositions realized in collaboration with
Angelo Maria Farro
: "End Zone" for orchestral bass drum and high oscillator, and "Rollings", where a snare roll is gradually stretched and filtered by digital means into "floating electronic gossamer". The incredible breadth of Curran's output makes it pretty unlikely that a listener familiar with his work would be surprised to find it branching out in a new direction. But no degree of familiarity with his work can really prepare for side B's epic and bizarre "Field it More". It's perhaps best to let the maestro describe this unhinged and infectious offering in his own words: "It features an eight-bar funky minimal riff à la
James Brown
, played on synth and an-out-of-tune piano, synced to a pre-paid patch on the Roland drum machine. Over this is laid a heavily processed track of the voices of dancer
Yoshiko Chuma
and movie-maker
Jacob Burckhardt
discussing an upcoming performance of theirs at the Venice film festival, capped by a track of my playing an increasingly out of control blues over the top of all of the above".. Presented with an inner sleeve with extensive liner notes from Alvin Curran.
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