/Avant-garde, Improvised music, Dada
music, Synth pop, DIY, Field recording, Weird pop, Electronic pop, Art punk,
Leftfield, Post-punk, Dance rock, Spoken word, Experimental pop/
Comment: thanks
to this 9-track issue (the download version is zipped into the two lengthy
tracks in total, though) I discovered a new platform for old, rarefied music,
called The Living Archive of Underground Music which is curated by Don Campau.
Indeed, it is time to discover amazing sonic examples from the past. First of
all, I truly like the title of the album which was relevant many decades ago
and is still today. By watching what is going to happen every day worldwide it
is ridiculous and sad at the same instant. People make this shit happen to.
Given that the singularity of human being used to diminish remarkably. Save The Brainforest reflects upon
these deranged and oppressed tendencies excellently. In detail, it veers from
robot-alike spoken word snippets and roughly processed guitar riff noises to
psychedelic and orchestrated synth lines and such sort of improvised situations
reminding of radio drama and sultry jungle encircled happenings. There are up
some hilarious artsy (post-) punk and fucked-up synth pop/dance rock progressions either.
Behind the project were Jeff Olson, and Carl Strong who recorded the issue on
the 4-track tape machine set up on a kitchen table. With this fabulous issue
the project did continue to uphold the Dadaist and obscure DIY tradition within
the US-based music scene (The Residents, Big City Orchestra, Fantomas, Negativland,
No-Neck Blues Band, Bob Chaos based imprint etc).