Thurston Moore
0 to 9 An Back Again
Ecstatic Peace No Cat
Magazine
£6.99
Limited to 200 hand-numbered zines produced by Thurston documenting the life/art/poetry of Vito Acconci, an interesting New York poet who ran the 0 to 9 press and whose work crossed over into the various Angel Hair/NY/Language/concrete schools. Features an interview with Acconci by Thurston, a bibliography of the 0 to 9 press and a selected bibliography of his work.
The New Blockaders/Thurston Moore/Jim O'Rourke
The Voloptulist
Ecstatic Peace E#85b
LP
£10.99
Limited edition (500 copies) vinyl pressing of this dream-team hook-up between a trio of the most important free-noise theorists of the modern age, the UK's New Blockaders and Thurston and Jim of Sonic Youth et al. Hard to work out who is doing exactly what here - though the presence of drummer Chris Corsano on the second track is pretty unmistakable - but the overall feel is of one of TNB's early Symphonie X works populated by thin strings of feedback, the crackle of electronic jack-to-jack friction and a subtle ring of bone. Beautifully eerie and a little more pro-drone than the bulk of TNB's work. Second track is just unbelievable, with a slow hiss of feedback torn apart by Corsano's triumphal, spirit/energy scattershots, marching a legion of ghosts all the way over the horizon. Highly recommended.
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