Rammed Earth [LP]

The Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Rammed Earth [LP]

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble -- Northern California's gift to the world -- offer five dense and haunted tape/electronics cuts recorded a few years ago for a world that was not yet ready and therefore were carefully stored. A soundtrack that justifies all purpose and passion for modern emerging hype trends.''I realized [that the significance of work put together specifically to annoy listeners lies in its capacity to illuminate some of the key problems in sound culture today] in an epiphanic flash while reading a quote cited by Walter Benjamin: 'Truth lies in the extreme.' He meant that no genre of art can be defined by its lowest common denominators, only by its most aberrant exemplars -- thus at a stroke explaining the value to criticism of Rudoph Grey, The Stooges, Charlie Feathers, and Elder Otis Jones. To understand why this kind of lo-fi noise, willful absurdism, deliberate chaos and the rejection of meaning have become such ubiquitous touchstones of contemporary culture, we have to examine the Petri dishes of this tendency -- the underground cassette culture of the early 1980s -- and for this, BUFMS is locus classicus.'' --Dr. Bruce Russel A1. The Horrifying World of Toddler Makeup (9:31) A2. MRI Do-Over (9:19)B1. Resting Mengele Face (5:12)B2. Operation Popeye (6:32)B3. The Glistening Variously Hued Sausages Do Not Progress, For Advancement Is An Illusion (7:22)