Moth Cock: Bremmy tape (Hausu Mountain, 2012)

September 6, 2013 at 8:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Moth Cock: Bremmy tape

I’ll probably never get to the bottom of the ridiculous ever-growing pile of tapes that has been sitting on my desk ever since Foxy Digitalis went kaput, but I would be seriously remiss if I didn’t pay some special attention to this brainmangler. All the info this tape provides is that one person plays trumpet and electronics and the other plays clarinet and that it was recorded live. That might leave a bit up to the imagination, but what you actually hear is beyond anything you could’ve imagined. This is simply bizarre, alien circus music that doesn’t sound like something that was thought up by humans. Sure, there’s traces of clarinet and trumpet, but they get twisted and perverted into something really grotesque and silly and strange, and it keeps folding in on itself and getting stranger and more confounding. The first side is a near-18-minute piece called “D. Kiss” which somehow arrives at these chomped-up music box sounds and haunted acid-clown funhouse mirror jazz, then somehow riding a bliss-wave on a warped polka-dot surfboard. On the other side, “Call Merk” goes for a more rhythmic Black Dice approach, but with lots of buzzing and honking. Both parts of “Lil Elk” are squishy and drippy and make you feel like you’ve taken a shower in some thick gloopy blue substance that you’re not sure if you want to know what it’s made of. This is just simply a tape you have to hear to believe, and it’s a free download over at Bandcamp.

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