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11/28/2011

Cave Bears - Jazz Hands (2011)



/Improvised music, Non-music, Noise, Avant-garde, Psych-music, Freeformfreakout, New Weird America, Primitivism, Psycho-acoustic, Experimentalism/

Comment
: it is said that Cave Bears is the incredibly bizarre, noise-drenched, brain-damaged sound exploration project of pre-school teacher Nick Williams, Carrie Bren & friends. Indeed, I can only agree with the statement. The issue embarks on with noiseful, angst-loaded screaming forays which are backed up with the blurred electro-acoustic dust and digital crackles and hiss in the background. Moreover, at times it used to run on primitivistic mode. In the second track it is sampled a sober melody from very far past which soon gets conquered and displaced with the destructive landscape. All in all, this 3 long-track album is an improvisational freakout act, reminding of some Finnish free improvisational combos (Kemialliset Ystävät; Hipsu Jänis; Vierivä Viiksiportieeri) or the Brazil-based nu wave noise acts (Keroøàcidu Suäväk; LFC) or the Portugal-based traveller Xarhope or the Estonian combos Kreatiivmootor, Tuljak, Autharktos, EDASI.