(Noise, Experimental, Free Improvisation) Diskaholics Anonymous Trio (Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke & Mats Gustafsson) - Live In Japan Vol.1 - 2006, FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

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REM DATE 2006
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Diskaholics is the collective guise of noise thoroughbreds Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke and Mats Gustafsson, a trio whose Weapons Of Ass Destruction LP set ears ringing a couple of years back on Norway's Smalltown Supersound imprint. This release on Load documents Diskaholics on their hols over in Japan, recording a searing live set along the way. The first half, 'Bent Triangle Pinkakotheca' scrunches up guitar distortion with tinnitus-inducing feedback tones, burbling electronics and presumably (given the presence of Gustafsson) some abstracted reed sounds, although it's hard to tell exactly what's making all the racket at times. However, far from being a curmudgeonly, monotonous noise outing, this album is full of light and shade, and for every moment of Mego-style extreme electronic dissonance, there's an equally brilliant guitar passage - and yes, surprisingly for a record that luxuriates in extremes you'll actually encounter elements that exhibit some degree of craft, musicianship and sensitivity. Awesome.
Recorded in 2002 while on a tour/record hunt in Japan, Live in Japan, Vol. 1 is a considerably scrappier affair. On the first track, "Bent Triangle Pinakotheca", there is an increased emphasis on O'Rourke's granular digital textures, including several piercing, Whitehouse-inspired tones that border closely on the painful. O'Rourke also is credited with mixing the album, and it's left unclear what enhancements he might have added during post-production. Nevertheless, the album's second piece "Unreleased Voice" culminates in an unbelievably concentrated implosion of noise, as the Diskaholics each grind their instruments to their savage limits. Although this prolonged outburst will surely resemble a trough of caviar for true avant-noise gourmets, it's almost guaranteed to clear the premises of anybody expecting to hear pale echoes of Insignificance or Goo. As the "Vol. 1" of this album's title clearly suggests, it appears there could be more such Diskaholics material to come. And based on the evidence of these two brutal, provocative albums, that news shouldn't necessarily come as anything to dread.