Metal Rouge – Three For Malachi Ritscher

Metal Rouge

Three For Malachi Ritscher

Catalog
RS035
Format
CD
Edition
Edition of 300
Released
2008
After a number of CD-R's, tapes and other underground ephemera, 'Three for Malachi Ritscher' is the first proper CD by Los Angeles free thinkers Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki. Through ringing passages of guitar, pedal steel, and wordless vocals, this disc climbs to thoughtless vistas of microtones and gushing feedback that inevitably implodes into vast reverberant spaces only to begin the cycle again and again. As a point of entry, the duo's craft can be seen as the joining of their love of many disparate musical forms, from the folk music of the Middle East & Asia to the underground histories of Japan & New Zealand, all mainlined through damaged delay and distortion via their own individual visions. Comes in a heavy black on black offset printed Arigato Pak.

Tracklist

  1. Anger, Awaken 10:29
  2. Love, Awaken 7:57
  3. Sorrow, Awaken 21:42

Press

Metal Rouge is the duo of LA based artists Andrew Scot and Helga Fassonaki, Three For Malachi Ritscher is their first proper release and finds them stringing together some pretty far-out, dissonant sounds - especially on opener 'Anger Awaken', which soon spirals out of control as sliding guitar wanderings pile up into searing strips of oscillator tone. 'Love, Awaken' is - as the title intimates - rather more tranquil, fizzing with clanging drones and percussive noise, but all in the most serene possible sense. By far the most interesting music comes from 'Sorrow Awaken', which has suggestions of Charalambides about it, bringing together out of tune lapsteel blues with distorted fuzz-machine clamour in a strange and dizzying swirl. - Boomkat