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Tovah Olson / Smack Music 7 / Lexie Mountain / Inca Ore
2x8” lathecut record set.
£15 plus post and packing.

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More than 2 years in preparation, the 2nd of Curor’s double 8” lathecut sets of female vocal explorations is finally available. The line-up this time is equally as mindbending as the last. Inca Ore’s “Honeysuckle” was actually intended to be on the earlier release, but a series of misfortunes meant that it had to be held over for the follow-up. My goodness, though, it’s been worth the wait as it offers that same nada-fidelity homespun otherliness so bewitching on Eva’s astonishing debut a few years back. Tovah Olson (Dead Machines) scares several shades of faecal matter from the listener with what sounds like a through-the-wall recording of a domestic dispute. It’s possibly the most disturbing thing committed to wax (or plastic) since Zos Kia’s “Rape.” Following up her recent release (split with Kuupuu) on the Curor-related Threshold Tapes, Karen Constance (Blood Stereo, Polly Shang Kuan Band), aka Smack Music 7, turns in another mini-masterpiece of tape assemblage so murky that any vocal element (remember the brief?) is barely discernable. Lexie Mountain’s solo recordings are typically darker than her gleeful whoop-alongs with the Mountain Boys, and on “Battleship Massachusetts” she wails and moans like some tormented inmate to a super-distorted recorder accompaniment. The set comes in beautiful b&w artwork courtesy of Jonna Karanka (Kuupuu). Whether Curor’s lathecut releases are a corrective to a male-dominated noise underground, or whether, in fact, they attest to the number of women active in the scene and the quality of their work, it’s a shame that this is to be the label’s valedictory release. Is there another label ready to take up the baton?


Post and packing:
UK: £1.50
Europe: £2.50
USA, Japan, Australasia and the rest of the world: £3.50

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We're not planning on distro'ing these, we'd like to make back as much cash from the label as possible, unless no-one buys em from us of course.