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01. Steve Dalachinsky & The Snobs - Abducted
02. Steve Dalachinsky & The Snobs - Ah Mores
03. Steve Dalachinsky & The Snobs - The Garbage Man
04. Steve Dalachinsky & The Snobs - Crippled Symmetry (For Morton Feldman)
05. Steve Dalachinsky & The Snobs - What The Hell Is It Ethel
06. Steve Dalachinsky & The Snobs - After / Thought (A Sound Separation)
ARTIST
TITLE
Massive Liquidity
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BBCD 014CD BBCD 014CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/22/2019

2011 release. Collaboration between New York beat poet Steve Dalachinsky and French art-rockers The Snobs. Steve Dalachinsky plays with words like models William Burroughs or Allen Ginsberg did few decades ago: using cut-up and automatic writing, he creates new meanings. Not only a writer, Dalachinsky performs regularly with free-jazz musicians and friends to give his text a new life. You can see the poet at work, how he breaks the rules of the language to create his own and how he embodies his words to converse with the sound of a saxophone or a double bass. Massive Liquidity is the result of a Bam Balam Records wish to hear the deep and mysterious Dalachinsky's voice mixed with a more rock and electric oriented music. The Snobs are a French duet formed by brothers Mad Rabbit and Duck Feeling in 2003. They produce records on their own and release them on their website for free. Dalachinsky and The Snobs met in winter 2011 in Paris to record some vocals for the project. With the first coming back to New York few days later, the French duet had the freedom to process with sounds just like Dalachinsky did with words: they used edits, collages and experiment to create the most cohesive work. Duck Feeling plays all the instruments on the record: guitar, bass, sitar, electronic organ, psychedelic effects, percussion instruments made with petrol cans or metal sheets. Massive Liquidity presents two twenty minutes musical suites made of various influences: 1969's Miles Davis instrumental freedom hit, Einstürzende Neubauten's industrial and elegant sense of rhythm. Psychedelic effects are both essential and measured to let a strict groove between James Brown and Arnold Schoenberg happen. Dalachinsky's voice is the narrative element: it can be a gentle whisper at a moment and turn into a wild and menacing raucous noise just few seconds later. Words and music interact, they sometimes hurt each other or simply become one only powerful and moving sound. The records closing belongs to the voice, which seems to clarify the violent and cosmic experience the listener just had: "It's his head now. Pull the trigger."