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TV Pow are Chicago's electronic musicians Brent Gutzeit, Michael Hartman and
Todd Carter. Their albums, influenced by Japanese noise-core (where both Gutzeit
and Hartman used to live), include:
Away Team (Box Media, 1998), recorded in may 1997 and containing four
suites (First Jump Viewmaster in Tow,
An Open Call for a Bike Ride,
This Detroit Simulation Inaudible,
An Orange Lake, Still Orangeing, the last one with two guitarists),
We Are Everyone In The Room (Erstwhile, 2001),
Being Nice Is Funny (Staalplaat, 2001),
the 20-minute mini-album Despite Ourselves (Fire Inc, 2002),
offer atonal and chaotic electronic music.
Television Power Electric (Gentle Giant, 1999) and
Television Power Electric 2 (2000) featured an expanded line-up,
and consisted of improvisations later manipulated in the studio.
Power Friends and Devoted Lovers (2004) and
Burned Bridges and Lost Loves (2005) were remix albums.
Other TV Pow albums include:
Friendship Patrol (Not For Profit), a sequence of 69 microscopic pieces,
and
America Says Farwell (En Of), that featured the electric koto.
Tv Pow's mastermind Brent Gutzeit collaborated with
James Plotkin on
Mosquito Dream (Kranky, 1999), and launched the project
Wheaton Research with
Living Under a Thin Film (Bake, 2000).
Gutzeit's first solo album was
Losing Every Day (Kissy, 2003), a collage of field recordings and ambient drones.
The three lengthy instrumental tracks of Drug Money (Kranky, 2004)
simply refine Gutzeit's aesthetics. The 14-minute collage
Piano Motor Skills #2 opens amid a menacing magma that gets more sinister
as soon as bells are heard in the distance, and then closer and closer. The
ghostly vision disappears in an "om"-like cosmic drone that gets thicker
and thicker, like a supernova explosion as it is being focused by a telescope,
which then slowly clears up and spreads out, revealing the magnitude of
emptiness in the cosmos. The overall effect is not unlike
Lightwave's electronic music.
At 22 minutes, Riding Horses is a less cinematic, more static, piece,
that takes a bass tone and slowly modifies it, indirectly emphasizing the
psychological qualities of sound. Slowly, the rumble evolves and grows,
like an organic species observed at a microscope. This is very slowly,
delicate ambient music a` la Harold Budd.
400 Blows, just a bit shorter, is also rather indulgent: the long
long tone goes nowhere.
Ultimately, the album relies only on the first track to mesmerize the
listener.
Everyoned (Brillante, 2004) is a chamber-jazz supergroup formed by Brent Gutzeit, Tim Kinsella of Joan Of Arc,
Liz Payne and Ben Vida of
Town And Country,
Chris Connelly.
TV Pow's Presents (2006) was an album of jazztronica that blended laptop
and piano, with the trio (Todd Carter, Brent Cutzeit and Michael Hartman) playing both acoustic and electronic instruments.
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