DAVE PHILLIPS : Nothing’s Wrong

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Format: CD [FDR86]
Shipping Weight: 0.08lbs
Label: Flag Day

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'It's not a problematic choice to start with Dave Phillips. I know his work better than Oort's, and I am always curious to hear something new from him. 'Nothing's Wrong - Just Continue As Usual', it says on the front cover, which he means ironic, as there is everything to worry about; the backside says it all "the ongoing rape of mother earth", and drives the point home, on the inside it says, "when I hear people say 'nature will prevail', it sounds like telling a gangrape victim who's been beaten and stabbed, 'don't worry, you won't die'". That sums up the ecological message that has played a vital role in his music for many years. The music on this new CD he created for 16-channel 'diffusion' in Lausanne and reduced to stereo for the CD. Something I like about Phillips' music is the noisy aspect, but it's a different kind of noise. His noise doesn't deal with distortion, stomp boxes or synthesisers. Phillips uses field recordings, fire and animal sounds, highly amplified, and his voice, also in a more animalistic form, and with bangs on wood or metal. Sometimes, there are other sounds, such as a clock ticking - time running out. There is something very primitive about this, like a ritual of a long time ago; I could use the word 'primitive', but was life primitive back then? Or is our current civilisation a thinly disguised form of something more primitive? Driven by urges we know have catastrophic effects? So, who's the primitive here? It sounds like Etant Donnes' masterpiece 'Blue', but extremer because of this amplification. Dave Phillips' music is a substantial charge for a cause that isn't good but essential if we want to survive and he's the shaman/priest to call us in action. We only need to listen, but as we know, we won't. - www.vitalweekly.net/number-1476/'

1 Nothing’s Wrong 35:27

Mastered By – Riccardo Mazza
Recorded By, Composed By [Decomposed By] – Dave Phillips
Recorded June to Sept '22 for a 16-channel diffusion at Bellevaux Lausanne 23 Sept '22. Rewamped for stereo '23.
Packaged in 4-panel Digisleeve.