Mattias Gustafsson-Frusen Musik CD (CARE05) 2019
In the expanses of the venerable compact disc format, our Swedish tape and electronics statesman piles in the lumber for a full scale fabrication of distorted scenes from daily life, fractured and warped to reflect the wandering imagination. Frusen Musik employs a rougher dialect similar to his Altar of Flies moniker, although it's often used on the scenic grounds of works from his recently lauded Frånvarande and Nattmusik LPs. Eight stunningly impactful works of cavelike architecture for an inspired rattling of the cage, a curious peeling of the wallpaper. Drips, wobbles, creaks, and cracks are turned to gold while nearby liquid encroaches a vulnerable circuit, disembodied voices spiriting in through the vents. Pry this one open and find flashes of entropy, unplaceable dread, meditative stares, and an acceptable dosage of melancholy. Admirers of Small Cruel Party, Crawl Unit, or the Tapeworks series on Gustafsson's own Hästen & Korset are likely to sense a familiar air.
Barn Sour-horses fucked over the head with bricks [7"] CARE06
2019
Following a good year or two of sporadic disseminations of equine art scrawled over scant shells from a salvaged duplicator in Winnipeg, one such artifact received in a parcel alongside a copy of Canada - Italy / Italia - Canada finds barn sour drafted into the minors without hesitation. Tar and feather glossolalia and momentary psychosis yielding two garbles of slapstick and melodrama. A lurid instability. "Interlude from Voices of Reason" condensed and gooned on nitrous or an accidental jukebox rendition of "For Stringquintet and Asstrumpet" feels appropriate. Cultural soup fresh off the stove, extra spicy.
https://www.carefulcatalog.comCopies of CARE05 and CARE06 en route to: Penultimate Press (UK), Fragment Factory (DE), Stellage (RU), Art Into Life (JP), Discreet Music (SE), Momentumless Identity (BE), Madriguera (US).
