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The Climax Golden Twins, originally the Seattle-based duo of
Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor,
debuted with the double 7" Climax Golden Twins (Fire Breathing Turtle, 1994) but offered the first mature statements of their aesthetic with
the cassettes Climax Golden Hiss (Union Pole, 1995) and
Eyeless Fabrication (EF, 1995).
Each of their albums concocts a surreal
lo-fi collage of drones, electronic noise, voices, field recordings.
The 23 fragments of
Imperial Household Orchestra (Scratch, 1996), recorded with eight
guests, offer a good overview
of their "concrete" techniques in assembling demented free-form jamming.
After this album, Scott Colburn was added to the project.
Climax Golden Twins (Fire Breathing Turtle, 1998), better known as Locations, reconstructed the human
experience in several different places by layering real-world voices and sounds,
a madcap collage of field recordings and shortwave radio transmissions.
The fifth track introduced a disorienting element of percussions.
At the turn of the century the duo concocted
Dream Cut Short In The Mysterious Clouds (Anomalous, 2000),
Rock Album (Fire Breathing Turtle, 2000), a set of 20 brief fragments
that employ rock instruments and rhythms in a context similar to
progressive-rock (the closest references being Fred Frith and God Is My
Copilot),
Session 9 (Milan, 2001), a haunting movie soundtrack that employs
instruments in the style of the classical avantgarde as well as the usual arsenal of samples, and shifts the emphasis towards abstract soundsculpting,
Lovely (Anomalous, 2002), which reworked some older material.
The combo calmed down considerably on
Highly Bred and Sweetly Tempered (North East Indie, 2004),
a collection of atmospheric adagios (Dead People),
bluesy meditations (Billy McGee McGaw),
surreal chamber music (Get Fat),
dadaistic puzzles of sounds (Imperial Household Orchestra),
and assorted musical jokes.
Climax Golden Twins (Conspiracy, 2006) contains a side-long
collage of found sounds and a series of jams ranging from garage-rock to
psychedelic trip.
5 Cents A Piece (Abduction, 2007), with the duo augmented with
percussionist Dave Abramson, sounded like a compromise between their
wild avantgarde side and their more prosaic rock side.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Margherita)
I Climax Golden Twins, in origine un duo fondato a Seattle da Rob Millis e Jeffery Taylor, esordirono con il doppio 7" Climax Golden Twins (Fire Breathing Turtle, 1994), ma proposero le prime espressioni mature della loro estetica con le cassette Climax Golden Hiss (Union Pole, 1995) e Eyeless Fabrication (EF, 1995). Ogni loro album inventa un collage surreale di drones, rumore elettronico, voci, registrazioni d'ambiente.
I 23 frammenti di Imperial Household Orchestra (Scratch, 1996) offre una buona sinossi delle loro tecniche "concrete". Dopo quest'album, Scott Colburn si uni’ al progetto. Locations (Fire Breathing Turtle, 1998) ricostruisce l'esperienza umana in vari luoghi tramite l'assemblaggio di voci e suoni. La quinta traccia introduce lo spiazzante elemento delle percussioni.
Dream Cut Short In The Mysterious Clouds (Anomalous, 2000), Rock Album (Fire Breathing Turtle, 2000)sono un assortimento di 20 brevi frammenti che utilizzano strumenti e ritmi rock in un contesto simile al progressive rock (i riferimenti piu’ chiari sono a Fred Frith e God Is My Copilot), Session 9 (Milan, 2001) e’ la colonna sonora di un film ossessivo che impiega strumenti secondo lo stile delle avanguardie storiche, cosi’ come il solito arsenale di samples, e sposta l'enfasi verso sculture sonore astratte, Lovely (Anomalous, 2002) rielabora materiale piu’ vecchio.
Il combo si rilasso’ alquanto in Highly Bred and Sweetly Tempered (North East Indie, 2004), una raccolta di adagio d'atmosfera (Dead People), meditazioni blueseggianti (Billy McGee McGaw), musica da camera surreale (Get Fat), puzzles dada di suoni (Imperial Household Orchestra), e scherzi musicali di vario genere.
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