NEW BLOCKADERS x major LP 1991 tnb nurse with wound

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The New Blockaders "Symphonie in X Major" LP issued by Hypnagogia (GOG01) in the UK, 1991. Edition limited to 500 copies. This copy No. 178/500. ****** Rec:m- / Cov:m- ****** One of the most important recordings in the modern noise canon, by one of the most consistently impressive acts in noise. In top conditions! "Simphonie in X Major" begins with huge industrial blasts, and moves through phases o machinery destroying itself – there are rhythms, made up of booming and howling. After 7'10" in the 'First Movement', the noisier part stops and gives way to scraping and thumping, building back up to more overwhelming blasts. The 'Second Movement' is crashier. The symphony is of course the privileged mode of 'classical' music at its height as an elitist art (culturally as well as in terms of class reception and production). Like the realist novel, its steady narrative and teleology reassures the higher classes of European society. Its structure makes it easy to construct a linear history of aesthetic beauty around it, suggesting a sense of order at all levels. Modernist experiments moved away from the symphony and/or sonata form, and in the case of Noise music, attempted to leave form behind (somewhat optimistically and didactically). TNB take the symphony into the woods and pound it until it stops speaking its language of reconciliation and resolution. Narrative is specifically undone through the nonlinear trudge through 'non-music' in this 'simphonie'. This rejection of narrative is crucial in returning us to the question of influence, which can no longer be heard in terms of inheritance but must be seen as agonistic and retrospective. Not only this, but it is undone (not refused), the spurious belief in individual genius unconnected to history stripped back. The New Blockaders combine the use of non-musical instruments, art inspiration, and a critique of musicality that is designed to renew. The 'instrumentation' is made up of objects and bits of rooms being scraped, dragged, thumped, scratched, etc. The sound world that emerges is something that continues throughout their work, albeit sometimes featuring more processed elements, especially if in collaboration with others. TNB refuse the evocations that characterise 'Industrial music', and collapse signification into material. Initially, unlike Pierre Schaeffer or Nurse With Wound, the sound seems to maintain its ‘dramatic context’ – i.e. we know, and are encouraged to notice, what is being played, however unusual it is in the context of music (recording, performance, artwork). But TNB refuse a virtuosity of the newly musicalized object. If a chair or wall is to be used ‘as percussion’ it will not be salvaged as a musical instrument, but will retain its flatness, its essential unmusicality. Later recordings and performances even lose the residual possibility of ‘properly playing’ objects in an undistinction of sound. Refusal is a key part of their strategy. "Junk" noise at its finest. This was the source material for Emil Beaulieau's "Dedicated to Richard Rupenus". ****** The record looks like it has never been played. Top conditions! ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** 3 ebay auctions in 3 weeks. Next week: spontaneous creation, free jazz, Anton Bruhin, Ghedalia Tazartes, Jean Guerin, Anthony Moore… ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.