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THE RITA's new full length work is a complex work of obsessive research on discipline, elite beauty, and suffering in the world of Ballet.
The main piece of the album is a lengthy composition that starts extremely minimal with subtle textural sounds, interrupted by samples of actual ballet training sessions. Sounds slowly builds up in a over the top harsh noise machinery that brings Sam McKinlay's classic trademark that crowned him as the godfather of harsh noise wall, with a monolithic build up of violence and intensity.
Second track is a power electronics rework of the the same sounds executed by Insubria hostile electronic unit CALIGULA031 that mixed all material with analog/modular sounds and in your face vocals, underlining different possibilities of textural processing.
Regarding the original sound sources, Vancouver musician, media artist, trained dancer Kelly Davis rigorously went through various feet positions and movements of classical ballet including 'Battements', 'rotary movements', 'connecting and auxiliary movements', etc. while a Traumatone contact microphone was rigged with a knee support brace to the side of her knee / thigh to capture the sounds of any hint of movement. The different chapters of sound were all repeatedly processed live by THE RITA as Davis went through her various positions and movements.
THE RITA's recent use of extended samples as a single, conceptual release or as a building block of material is derived from the complete immersion in a topic found in earlier influences of WHITEHOUSE, TAINT, and OVMN, but also as an extension of his work with women's singing and vocal work in the earlier THE RITA – 'Womens Vocals' LP. McKinlay finds that the totemic fetishism and the subtle resonances of the female voice as they describe the topic(s) help to bury the listener into all that is woman, especially as the samples shift into the symmetry of a female dancer's recorded movement.
Co-produced by Elettronica Radicale Edizioni with Old Europa Café, limited to 300 copies, comes in digipack and 12 pages booklet with unsettling text contributions by ex-dancer/writer Simone Paget and Marco Deplano (Wertham).
Out in a couple of weekls – pre order accepted
CD: 13 eur+ postage – caligula031 at gmail dot com -
Distros please get in touch for wholesale prices!
SAMPLES: https://soundcloud.com/wertham/sets/the-rita-ballet-feet-positions
https://elettronicaradicale.bandcamp.com/album/the-rita-ballet-feet-positions-cd
video teaser posted on youtube
http://youtu.be/VDFjfjzMyNo
CD out next week!
You can pre-order now.
Quote from: tiny_tove on April 03, 2014, 11:07:37 AM
video teaser posted on youtube
http://youtu.be/VDFjfjzMyNo
CD out next week!
You can pre-order now.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
out now.
price is 13 euro+mail
get in touch at caligula031 at gmail dot com.
distros welcome
if we already in touch regarding this, I will write as soon as possible.
I should have copies on wednesday and be able to send on Friday/Monday at the latest.
Will try to put my hands on this soon!
These are available direct from The Rita now as well. Looks like a very interesting release.
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cds are in and are going quite fast!
Some distros, probably forgetting some:
Freak Animal Records (Finland)
Tesco (Germany)
BlackTrax (Germany)
Fragment Factory (Germany)
Tochnit Aleph (Germany)
Tordon Jud (Sweden)
Self Abuse (USA)
Malignant (USA)
Unrest (UK)
Cold Spring (UK)
Old Captain (Ukraine)
and of course I carry copies so Old Europa Cafe does.
I still have a couple copies in stock here in Canada. http://www.screamandwrithe.com
http://mailorder.rumpsti-pumsti.com/
What a wonderful release. It arrived from Sam last week but I didn't have a chance to spin it until this morning. Fantastic. Really captivating, I was on a long commute and could really just zone out to what was going on. A+
Got this from ERE. The track is masterfully organized. Crack and pop evolving into into a more sustained crunch. I close my eyes and try to imagine the positions being performed. Recordings of sweet-voiced girls teaching you how to condition their feet. The layout very good as well. Photos of toes and feet and stages of battering, and the piece by Simone and the alternate by C031 give a wider perspective on the concept as well. Truly thrilling.