"Carine Masutti was once Temporary Item.s, but has lately found greater permanence as herself. A limited edition treat from earlier this year (77 tapes for the world...), her Of the Glowing Mud cassette on Barge now has a companion EP - Of the Glowing Mud II, suitably if prosaically - to house remaining pieces from the original exhibition.
Immersion in the full mud bath is recommended. These 11 pieces affirm while darkly extending Masutti's distinctive, lop-sided sound - its lurching playfulness, its idiosyncratic, percussive textures, its femininity (perhaps that last is just the power of suggestion, though it'd be a stretch to describe very much of either Mud as macho).
The unexpected meshing of the alien & the organic, as Barge's blurb (below) brilliantly puts it, is striking. While those spelunked caverns seem like the aptest setting for many of these dank reverberations...
Blurb: "Often sounding alien and organic within the same track, “Of the Glowing Mud” is an expansive mixture of eerie heaviness and delicate sonic architecture. Visions of glacial ice melting, spider webs being spun, electricity spreading across a grid or cavern spelunking reveal themselves over the two sides of chrome tape.
Carine says that cats' ears will especially appreciate certain tracks on the album."
All tracks mastered by the great Denis Blackham, btw - in what must have been one of his last assignments before 'semi-retirement'. No surprise that he brings much glow & no mud..."
(Julian Lewis - Lend Me Your Ears)
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Ces titres font partie du projet initial "Of The Glowing Mud"
carinemasutti.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-glowing-mud
mais ne figurent pas sur le format cassette de l'album sorti sur le label Barge Recordings.
Les voici regroupés en maxi EP digital.
These titles are part of the initial project "Of The Glowing Mud"
carinemasutti.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-glowing-mud
but were not included in the cassette edition of the album released on the label Barge Recordings.
Here they are brought together in a digital maxi EP.
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Music by Carine Masutti.
Mastered by Denis Blackham
Photography by Ville Lenkkeri.
