Little Songs of the Mutilated, a surrealist music collective headed by multi-instrumentalist Justin Ashworth (Glasfrosch, Kungfuepilepsy, etc), creates unpredictable dream-like soundscapes using the old Surrealist Exquisite Corpse technique: six players create 40 seconds of sound, then pass the last 10 seconds on to the next player, who then responds to that 10 seconds with 40 seconds of their own, and so on, until all six players have had a turn on all six pieces.
Usually curated by Ashworth, recently the project has experimented with guest curators. The most recent effort, "They Were Lifelessly Melding In A Pool Painted with Little Songs of the Mutilated", was curated by none other than the reclusive aging audiomancer known as A Demon Sheen (The Horn, Gnaumgn, Intrinsic Light, Stinky Picnic, Undead Magic User, Grist, Haark, Haraam, etc), and features an all-star cast of magickal and non-magickal practitioners of sonic deviation:
Sage Pbbbt (Digital Penetration, solo, etc)
Gelareh Pour (Mnmn, Garden, Zรถj, solo, etc)
P23 (Akoustik Timbre Frekuency, Plaguewielder, etc)
A Demon Sheen (as above)
From field recordings to kamancheh to exended vocal techniques to synth to the amplified rubbing of hand-skin, this release uses the Third Mind of the cut-up technique to dictate a bewildering tale from beyond the Realm of the Conscious, utilising the Surrealist's techniques to access unrefined Surreality itself. Available for streaming, or purchase (we recommend purchase and download, because then these ritualised pieces of telesonic chronoplasty can be further randomised into larger-scale shuffle-plays, increasing and enhancing the 'chance' elements therein, a feature more likely to align one's own Path with the desires of the Earth Coincidence Control Office, and benefit one's Bobward Slide along the Luck Plane).
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