STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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January 23, 2012

Frattura Waltz – s/t 12” EP (Agenda del Mondo)

Mystery record from 2010, combining a dense, downtown rubbery Laswell/Ronald Shannon Jackson disco kinda thing that goes beyond mere groove into language itself. Brothers Joe and Tom Waltz play guitar and bass in collaboration with Cibo Matto drummer Timo Ellis and samchillian inventor Leon Gruenbaum. Frippery abounds, the rhythms patched together on “Nonno’s Scattone” slowing and speeding within a few beats of one another in a disorienting and multi-textural sphere of musical thought. They don’t stay with an idea for longer than 30 seconds without jettisoning it in favor of a more advanced groove, with closer “Supersong” allowing Gruenbaum to bend the entire output of the track to the robotic relativity of his synth. This record turns up a bunch of dead leads, its creators’ Soundcloud all but barren, and only one Youtube video floating around to verify that they exist. The label URL on the back of the sleeve leads to a dead page, and the name Frattura-Waltz turns uo in conjunction with a merit scholarship offered at a Catholic school in New Jersey. Big money, no whammies, stop. Two googly eyes are glued to the outer sleeve in a bizarre, slick, and weighty package. 180g vinyl, three songs, and includes a CD version with the aforementioned video cut, “DFYS.” Weird. Will you ever find one, and what will you do with it once that happens?
(Doug Mosurock)

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