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The Starving Weirdos, a group (mainly Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay) from Northern California (Humboldt), assembled oneiric free-form noisescapes that ran the gamut from ear-piercing walls of noise to otherworldly drones, always maintaining a gloomy underlying leitmotif, as if they were soundtracks to the post-nuclear world.
Starving Weirdos (Athiestaregods, 2005) contains three lengthy compositions:
Plastic Gagaku,
Nightime On The Eureka Waterfront,
Friday The 13th Pt.II.
Two of the three lengthy pieces of Father Guru (Azul Discografica, 2006)
were emblematic of the duo's schizophrenic music:
the organic continuum of Cypress Groves versus the discrete chaos of Mist-Shrouded World Part 2.
The double-disc Eastern Light (Root Strata, 2006) contains:
Plastic Gagaku (13:26),
Sea-Foam At Midnight (16:43),
Quiet Shit (25:39),
Recital Hall (44:14),
Bro-In-Out (20:53).
Seance At Luffenhulz (Sound & Fury, 2006) contains:
Red Crescent Moon (13:09),
Seance at Luffenhulz (19:59),
King Radness on His Royal Swim (18:10).
Self-Hypnosis (Jyrk, 2006 -
Weird Forest, 2009)
contains:
Density Of Life (14:27),
Self-Hypnosis (12:32),
D.O.L. Pt.2 (14:58).
The project began to diversify with the
the heavier and more distorted Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic (Root Strata, 2007), containing Wartime Sunrise (17:50) but otherwise rather uneventful;
and the gothic Summon With Electronic Sorcery (Bottrop-Boy, 2007) in four parts: Summon (13:05), Orchestra At Twilight (11:36), In Transit (13:50), Sunaet At The College Cove Bluffs (11:29).
Bryan Pyle is also active as
RV Paintings, that debuted with Trinity Rivers (Root Strata, 2008),
and as Ensemble Economique, that debuted with
At The Foot Of Nameless Roads (Digitalis, 2008).
The Starving Weirdos' Spirit Activity (Root Strata, 2008) and
Into An Energy (Bo'Weavil, 2009)
were even noisier and more chaotic than usual.
Live At The Accident! (Blackest Rainbow, 2009) documents a performance
with Tom Carter of Charalambides and Shawn David McMillen.
B/P/M Series 1 (Blackest Rainbow, 2009) uses recordings by
pianist Darius Brottman as source material.
Blue Herons (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2009), recorded by a trio, contained an industrial suite and a relatively calm suite.
Path of Lightning (Weird Forest, 2009) was even more abstract than usual.
Brian Pyle's Ensemble Economique became more prolific with
Psychical (Not Not Fun, 2010),
Standing Still Facing Forward (Amish, 2010)
The Vastness Is Bearable Only Through Love (Agents Of Chaos, 2011),
and
Crossing The Path By Torchlight (Dekorder, 2011), in an elegant
and hybrid style of digital soundsculpting.
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