Shearwater Records is pleased to announce the fifth in a series of weekly – more or less – releases in their virtual seven inch “OCF” series.
bLOWFLY were a notorious “art-terrorist” band in the late 80’s/early 90’s Auckland scene, who, after starting life as an E.N.T. inspired grindcore unit, morphed into a full scale Industrial Goth performance art bloodbath, with music coming second to on-stage rituals of sado-masochism, abjection and body fear. I was lucky – or unlucky – enough to be present at their last gig in 1992. A few dozen of us were scattered across the floor of the Gluepot, and we were pelted with rotting meat, faeces, used tampons and light bulbs filled with animal’s blood before witnessing the band imploding while their drummer administered himself with what proved to be a fatal dose of heroin.
The band were apparently deeply traumatised by the incident and went their separate ways. Bassist Harriet Palmer went on to run the excellent label Vile Stories and to play, as DJ Tantrum, an important part in establishing jungle and drum and bass in Auckland. Under a bewildering number of pseudonyms she has also released a steady stream of her own music, much of it influenced by the long period she lived in Kyoto.
This release, as International Conspiracy of Scientists, is typical of her challenging oeuvre. Two lovely, beautifully textured pieces of digital musique concrete lull you into tranquillity before you’re presented with the kind of piercing drone that inhabits the outer realm of Japanese experimental music. Apparently it’s generated by the unprocessed signal from a faulty delay pedal, and, like all of Palmer’s work, it makes you glad to have lost the edge off your hearing in such elegant and blessed-out style.
Available for free from the DivShare link below. Size: 11.2 Mb
This and previous releases are archived at http://shearwaterrecords.blogspot.com/
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