Aaron Dilloway Modern Jester Rare
Edition of 100 on red vinyl, some with black streaks.Infinite psychic assistance from Twig Harper & Nate Young.Psychotic dissection assistance from Tom Darksmith & John Mannion.In memory of Merrill & Ruth Herbst, Lee Hoffmann, Jack & Katherine Dilloway.Back cover quote from ' The Glass Hammer ' by K.W. Jeter: ' People could screw up - you expect them to - but machines are made of finer stuff.
They're not supposed to begin talking, in a new voice, out of the blue, about death and weird shit like that. 'Every second of this recording contains subliminal messages.SRecorded 2008 - 2011.Finalized July 2011 at Tarker Mills, Oberlin, Ohio.
Hundreds of releases and countless live performances littered the path that lead to 2012’s Modern Jester, artist Aaron Dilloway’s last major artistic statement as.Review Summary: Putting the retch in wretched / haunt me, haunt me, do it again. Emetophobia - Emetophobia is a phobia that causes overwhelming, intense anxiety pertaining to vomiting.This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the action of vomiting or fear of being nauseated. The Gag File is, first things first, an entendre, a way of rendering Dilloway’s new album - his first album proper in 3 years, his first album pivotal since 2012’s Modern Jester - contiguous with the latter. “It’s all a gag, a joke” says the faux-ironist, throwing up his hands in mock surrender.“It doesn’t mean anything” offers the nihilist. But underneath is that word, the centrepiece, “gag”, voted the most unpleasant sound to human ears in a BBC poll partly because, due to an evolutionary safeguard, vomiting is contagious. Many people are genuinely terrified of the sound, myself among them.I read somewhere that the editor of the Atlantic is emetophobic and carries around a sick-bag with him everywhere, refuses to fly.
Old School Rappers. Photos from his wedding, when he suffered an acute bout, show him sheening with sweat, pale, gaunt, looking more resuscitated corpse than gleeful groom. Grotesque, of course, but no more grotesque than the sound of gagging because: jesus christ, is there anything more visceral' This album, perhaps.
What neuroses linger underneath the veneer, the porch, the bed' What terror exists beyond the stiff-upper-lip, attempts at rational thinking' This is the puzzle Dilloway offers, though his cryptic loops leave no easy answers. Dilloway is a magician of sorts, transmorphing techniques of ‘minimalism’ and creating something maximal and overbearing out of them.His loops shimmer and disappear into thin air, but his blades, coruscatingly sharp, well they’re designed to penetrate human skin and the dove' The dove is dead. Beginning with a fittingly phantasmal tape-looped voice scarred beyond recognition and weaving it into a pattern, the album plays with the ghoulish and the mundane through a thicket of noise. Karaoke with Cal and the stunning Inhuman Form Reflected, replete with jump-scares, and the most obviously monstrous candidates here, a Frankenstein of eldritch loops, decayed noise blasts and rickety incantations offered from a creaking chair. Essentially, it’s a lot of fun, but too ominous to be entirely unfrightening. Dilloway has, however, forgone some of the murk and muck.
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This album to these ears seems the most polished, pristine and for lack of a better word hi-fi than his previous works, and by throwing the lo-fi approach out he throws his playfulness out with it.