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01. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - A Grave Fall (January)
02. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Saddle Up
03. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Was He Good - The Bunny Business
04. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Bingo Bingo Bingo
05. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - They Say To The Mountain
06. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Belly Up
07. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Une Planete
08. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Twist
09. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Galveston Beach Pink Dust (April)
10. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Hell Applaud This Turn!
11. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - A Greater Name Is You
12. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Run It
13. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon - Grab Her Neck And Tell Her I Love Her
ARTIST
TITLE
To Cut and Shoot
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
DDS 086LP DDS 086LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/4/2025

Shredding up definitions of electro-acoustic opera, spectralist chamber musique and concrète rave, Demdike hit square between the eyes/ears of film music vernaculars on a startlingly strong addition to their unique oeuvre, now in its 16th year of elusive psychoacoustic strafes and jump-cuts across putative borders. The 13-part, hour-long album dislodges source material made for the experimental film To Cut and Shoot, by Kristen Pilon, an NYC-based musician and filmmaker, to farther refract the film's themes of serendipity and the nature of ghosts and dreams with a flickering flux of sound-imagery and aleatoric weirdness appropriate to her original meditations, but also freely messing with their forms. Situated just a few miles north of Houston, Cut and Shoot is a relatively insignificant Texas town with an unforgettably bizarre name. Pilon grew up not far from Cut and Shoot, and it's there where she ran into 65-year-old machinist and motorcyclist Robert Lewis Stevenson, better known as Bobbo, who's pictured on the album's cover. Responding to Kristen's initial piano and operatic vocal recordings, Demdike return a volley of discrete parts tilting from typically cantankerous mayhem to quieter, more clandestine buzzes sliced with crazed interstices of the imagination, all marbled with the plasmic contrails of the paranormal which have long been peculiar to their work. With a poetic flair reflecting Pilon's own phrasing and melding of mediums, Demdike unfold and expand her melodic fragments into temporal mazes. The storyline wickedly frays and loops into itself with a non-linearity that recalls the mid-to-latter stages of Lynch's Mulholland Drive or waking from a sweaty fever dream only to pitch back into its thorny bush of ghosts, often within the space of one track. It's testament to the ever-tighter binds of Demdike's symbiotic vision that the results nevertheless hold a thread of logic that weaves in everything from their Jon Collin jams to reams of mixes and Gruppo edits with an unresolved, open-ended quality. RIYL: The Caretaker, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Nate Young. Mastered by Rashad Becker, art by Andrew Lyster.