LHD "Hysterical Blindness" book
Received LHD book, read it, and decided to pull out one LHD discs from shelves. Of course I do have the complete re-issued material too.. but like they explain in book, works were created to certain length. They work well as double CD sets, but 19 mins of harsh blast is compact and to-the-point, and kind of statement of its own to put out short CD. It is curious how for tape, we often accept 20 min tape to be same value as 40 or 60 min, suddenly when it is CD, there appears to be often attitude that it's "single", "ep", or something like that, and valued less - most often in both, money and level of interest. 20 minute CD presented as full noise album certainly seems intentional statement and it works very well!
Book is short, quick to read. It really is like 15 pages essay by Sienko + discography, put into hardcover book format. Would work out just as "story of LHD" zine, but I guess book format gives it a bit... authority!
GX Jupitter-Larsen "Digging Through Time" book
Still reading the book, but I can comment it already now. lists all the Haters & GX performances with details including date, location, description of performance, description of audience, sometimes listing personnel who was taking part, or other artists playing same night. Lots of small nuggets of information, and curious to see for example Mike Dando taking part in many of The Haters live during certain period of time. There are also neat photos included. Could have been more, but it would work also merely as text document. Haters did make plenty of mess back in the day. Also curious is that most of the early audience reactions are described most often as quiet modest clapping at best. At worst being kicked out of venue by owners, haha.
Both books came out on Helicopter and 1st editions still in print and available from there.
