Silvia Kastel / Ninni Morgia / Bren't Lewiis – Fix It Again, Tony [LP]

"First-time collaboration by avatars of the new generation of European improv and blue-haired spazimoto mutants. An awkward thwack marathon of crumbled guitar noise, otherworldly howls, and stuff falling down stairs. Edition of 175. Prior to the start of their spring tour of the U.S. in 2012, Silvia Kastel and Ninni Morgia arrived one drizzly afternoon at an inconvenient cavern in San Francisco called The French Culture Lab. The Italian improv / industrial / noise duo brought with them guitars and electronics that they say “feel like an extension of the body”. “Some of Morgia and Kastel’s vast array of pedals are handmade, such as the former’s newly unboxed vibrato pedal, and the latter’s amplified spring, imported from Japan, which, when screwed and unscrewed, makes uncomfortable tiny little sounds.” Waiting for them were Bren’t Lewiis’s fabulous freak brothers Lucian Tielens and Gnarlos, who brought with them one guitar, one effects box (a hand-crafted matchbox-sized ultra-fuzz), a handful of cassettes with randomly loaded snippets of music and sound, and miscellaneous objects ranging from a bag of plastic Easter eggs filled with coins to a canand-bottle-filled recycling bin. They also made use of what one would find in any typical warehouse — lighting fixtures, metal chairs, handtrucks and carts, packing tape and tape guns, sheets of pallet wrap and bubble wrap, cardboard flats and boxes,garbage cans, pipes, conduits, brooms and dustpans. The quartet played nonstop for nearly an hour and a half, recording live to four-track and on a mobile digital movie camera. The session was cut-up, multi-tracked, looped, and reassembled into thirty-two pieces that are more scrambled than the unrealized fears of an acute entomophobe, and, according to Morgia, “sometimes sounds like Twin Infinitives chewed by Polyphemus”. A completely alternate edit will eventually see the light of day under the title Found On Read, Dead. Cover art by Todd Emmert. Insert includes drawing by Karen Constance."

Butte County Free Music Society, 2013