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Artefacts - 24CD (2006)

by Neil Carver & Martin Archer

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1.
First Artefact: Brodger 01:19
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2.
Forgotten Things 13:15
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3.
Retrieving 23:52
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4.
The Hau of the Forest 20:00
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5.
Art of a Conjurer 01:26
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6.
Second Artefact: Material Flow 11:44
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"Fairly sparse, with close attention paid to the grain of the sound and featuring a mix of real and virtual instruments alongside invented quasi-instruments. It occupies no clear stylistic territory, but is often very engaging". - ReR

Neil's unique approach to both the guitar and found / homemade instruments is here translated into a sequence of finely detailed electroacoustic compositions through extensive use of software processing.

"The retrieving of these forgotten things from oblivion in some sort resembles the art of a conjurer. And when that made by man is all removed, then all that is left is of an origin wholly natural" - JOHN AUBREY, 1670, Monumenta Britannica.

These six electroacoustic compositions are from a duo that has worked together sporadically since the Mesolithic, and which has always used both melody and repetition alongside more abstract elements. Although in the past this duo has performed entirely improvised concerts, for this recording chance procedures have been harnessed within carefully composed structures. This CD explores a variety of compositional possibilities arising from three main sources.

Several pieces are based on ideas for modified electric guitar sometimes combined with natural or processed woodwind, while others exploit recent experiments with music boxes. Occasionally these are inserted into an unsuspecting ukulele, producing an artefact from now on to be known as the boxophone. The soundworld moves from the uneasy minimalism of "Retrieving" to the guitar brutalities versus west coast clarinet stylings of "Forgotten things". The "hau" builds on an idea for sopranino saxophone playing naturally occurring melodic fragments set in a pre-industrial landscape of questionable reality. These longer pieces are balanced against the almost heard as played guitar of "Brodger" and the granular alchemy of "The art of a conjurer".

During the recording of "Material flow" we heard of the sad passing of Jackie McLean. He might not have liked what we've played, but we hope he would appreciate the sentiment.

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released October 31, 2021

Neil Carver - electric and acoustic guitars, boxophone, percussion, gongs, calls, water, motors
Martin Archer - software instruments, woodwind

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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