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The Rise & Fall Of Eurojesters

by Tru West

  • Record/Vinyl

    a1. Tru West - Tru Children
    a2. Tru West - Tru Children (Herva Cobra 90 Mix)
    b1. Tru West - Chasing The Loophole In A Relentless Spiral Of Self-Indulgence
    b2. Tru West - Chasing The Loophole In A Relentless Spiral Of Self-Indulgence (Marcello Napoletano A.M.W. Edit 1 & 2)

    Audio playlist : www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcqoPtxuMeo&list=PLY90zL1qAUx0jqJzi5r8vQtTaJDPSpcmA

    Catalog nr : MARMO006
    Format : 12“ EP
    Remixers : Herva, Marcello Napoletano
    Release Date : May the 5th 2017

    Having already lamented The Decline Of Western Civilization, the alarmingly prophetic Tru Westerners rise once more to lay waste to conventional musical structures and themes in their continuing quest for meaningful sonic abandon.

    The freewheeling collective have been busy on their own terms since their last group efforts, but they reconvene for The Rise And Fall Of The Eurojesters at a time when the external pressures of global politics, economics and environmental concerns point to an uncertain future. In the face of such ambiguity, the dogged experimentation of Tru West feels like a logical response, manifested here in two original pieces and some equally daring remixes and edits.

    “Tru Children” is a bubbling stew of sounds flowing into each other, unbound to the dogmatic structure of a timeline. A basic rhythm tick emerges to the music on course, but this is really an exercise in letting go, as the rippling percussion and field recordings intertwine into a dualistic whole - chaotic yet strangely calming.

    Herva takes this meditation as a starting point and crafts his sharply focused “Cobra 90” revision with brittle drum machines and post punk bass as the main ingredients. The bass in particular stands out, not least because Herva recorded it through the titular Carlsboro Cobra 90 amplifier. While the groove may be more discernible, the slippery qualities of the original version linger in the background to keep this far from the conventional dancefloor.

    Captured in 2013 during Tru West’s first live improvisation at the Meinblau Gallery in Berlin, “Chasing The Loophole in a Relentless Spiral of Self-indulgence” was performed alongside the Standpunkt exhibition by Alessandro Lupi. In the spirit of the environment, this piece heads even further out on a surge of haunting piano, tonal interference and verbal reflections on telekinesis. Where “Tru Children” was an organic, fluid mixture of many sounds, this is an uncomfortable claustrophobia triggered by clamouring machines.

    Marcello Napoletano takes this maelstrom of sonic activity and creates his own brand of intensity with a two-part edit. Rather than paring down the extravagant original, in Part 1 he instead pushes the material further, layering up even more wild sounds from percussion to heavily processed jazz instrumentation. In Part 2, the veteran Italian producer makes the concession to bring a rugged drum machine beat into the mix, but uses it merely as a structure around which to wield vast slabs of sonic matter. It’s an apocalyptic finishing move to a record that, as ever, feels like a shriek in response to an ever-more-unhinged world.

    Credits
    Original Versions written and produced by Tru West
    Herve Atse` Corti - synthetizer[Modular], drum machine
    Martin Hopkins - tapes, drills, skunx
    Matteo Tagliavini - Medium
    Niccolo` Daniel Rufo - turntables, sampling, vocals, efx
    Stefano Meucci - effects, acoustic processing, sounds kneader
    Master and cut by Helmut Erler at D&M Berlin
    Manufactured by Optimal Media
    Graphic design by Juliane De Nicola
    Additional support by Giordano Devincenzi

    Additional credits
    a1 recorded at Pausenraum Studios Berlin between July and September 2016.
    a2 remixed by Herve Atse` Corti at Herva's home studio during his life journey.
    b1 live jammed and recorded at Meinblau Gallery Berlin on April the 26th 2013, featuring Davide Lorenzon on sax.
    b 2 edited by Marcello Napoletano in Otranto, somewhere, sometime.
    Special thank to Alessandro Lupi for hosting Tru West first ever show during his „Standpunkt Exhibition“ ...

    © + ℗ Marmo Music Recordings 2017

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released May 5, 2017

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