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Castro/Marhaug: Glory on the Summit
CD-R -
Sonora, Puerto Rico- 2007
Reviews:
CASTRO/MARHAUG - GLORY ON THE SUMMIT (CDR by Sonora)
Castro, armed with a guitar, met Lasse Marhaug, also armed with a guitar. It's not from the very first second a full on noise blowing party of howling feedback, but it takes them some time (well, perhaps a lot of them) to get there, but once arrived they are full on. One plays no chords and bangs the strings through a lot of effect boxes and whilst the other holds the string let's the feedback zip in through the amplifier, thus playing something like a solo. Quite an intense release, but the recording quality could have been better. (Vital Weekly)
Another of Castro’s recent outings (that is, apart from his crew Cornucopia) is the Castro/Marhaug collaboration with Lasse Marhaug of Jazkamer. Made of a single 20-minute performance, ‘Glory on the Summit’ explores with a raw, improvisational immediacy the extremes of minimalism and noise which ‘Pastoral’ refines: sparse, barely audible tones survive the track (though in the end, as mere echoes of negative space) of which the groan of electrocuted guitar enters and dominates Hair Police style, cutting a ragged gash through the droning harmonics of low-level feedback. The formation of a natural percussion and rhythm sparks in the ear a design with which to follow the akimbo feedback, a phenomenon the loudest voice tries in the end to erase with a trio of high-end tonal sheets to partition the listener from whatever strangulations the remainders have to share. Brief, passionate, though considerably uneven, the disc works nicely as a supplement to the solo Castro disc while standing strong as a monolith in its own right. Printed white-label CDr comes poly-bagged in a heavy sleeve. (-online review)
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