BLARKE BAYER
Meniere's Disease
01. Meniere's Disease (19:07)
format:
CD-R
edition:
100
packaging:
Hand-made envelopes,
screenprinted / typewritten inner sleeves
&c:
Ben Andrews is perhaps better known for providing My Disco
with their signature angular guitar scree. But he also performs solo
under the name Blarke Bayer, running his guitar through a battery of effects
to create multilayered drones & tones.
This live set starts out rather harsh, but slowly morphs
towards an almost blissful finale.
listen:
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Nom de plume of Australian Ben Andrews (also of My Disco) who runs
the Numerical Thief label (issued Psychic Secession by Yellow Swans).
This is a live recording from 2006 with Ben playing his guitar
and tone generators through a mass of effects. This begins with harsh
hissing and machine scribble, adds in some guitar drone undercurrents
and shadowy breaths of melody and creates something soporific and
haunting by the end.