LP - Metgumbnerbone - 'Ligeliahorn' C93 NWW
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Mega rare LP:
Metgumbnerbone - 'Ligeliahorn'
(A mission records REV13:18)
Released in 1983, this lp has now become one of the hardest to find LP's from this era of avant/experimental music. It belongs to the same broad 'scene' as:
Nurse With Wound / Coil / Current 93 / Throbbing gristle / Organum / Psychic TV / Z'ev / Mirror / Andrew Chalk / Ora / Daniel Menche / etc. & these days will appeal to those with an interest in artists such as those listed + Merzbow / Aube etc.
Apparently one of the members is now in The New Blockaders
Metgumbnerbone's music was a dense soundscape of improvised actions, recorded in abandoned industrial sites.
Collectors will know all about this LP. It's in very good condition (maybe played 4 or 5 times when new, then carefully stored) & is complete with insert sheet.
Thanks.
from the web:
Metgumbnerbone has been a ensemble whose recordings have become fetish objects from the most obtuse regions of Industrial Culture.
What a mouthful! Metgumbnerbone was an obscure post-industrial / drone-improv project that centered around the collaboration between Richard & Philip Rupenus (better known as The New Blockaders, and often Organum partners), John Mylotte, and Sean Breadin (who with Richard Rupenus formed the oblique ritual project Masstishaddhu). From what little information is available about the group, Metgumbnerbone only had a couple releases back in the mid '80s with "Ligeliahorn" being the only recording to get beyond the short run productions of cassette culture with a vinyl release on the now defunct A Mission records. As with all of the Metgumbnerbone recordings, "Ligeliahorn" was recorded entirely in the subterranean (and potentially hazardous) confines of an abandoned factory in Newcastle, England. The collective used the ductwork of the factory and whatever else was laying around as readymade percussive and wind instruments, creating sustained rythmic clatter and acoustic dronescrapes which fluctated into recognizable cyclical patterns and out towards sparse pipe fights. Metgumbnerbone's junkyard sound was always much colder, more sedate, and more funereal than the massive apocalyptic pummel of Einsturzende Neubauten or San Francisco's Scot Jenerik, despite their similarity in instrumentation.
"Ligeliahorn" was recorded during the summer of 1983 at The Ruins of Industry, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; long abandoned post-industrial sites along the banks of the River Tyne providing ideal if somewhat hazardous environments for the sort of musical activity Metgumbnerbone is known for - i.e entirely live on location improv / action in which the location itself determined the musical outcome as much as did the performers and / or their instruments.
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