Shelf Life/Rheuma

Musicians:

Alex B.

Bryan D.

Andrew P.

Joseph J.

As you may be able to tell from the above, this record doesn’t have an overabundance of documentation. No full names for musicians or listings of what they play, no website, no street address, no liner notes, nada. But it’s very worthwhile improv music to be sure. Ghostly electronics, non-English voices and gibberish waft around, the sounds maybe coming out of an untouched radio dial somehow cohering into engaging field recordings. That id monster from the movie Forbidden Planet finally got it together and made an album. I guess mystery sounds fit mystery packaging; this sometimes felt as if it dropped through a letter box from a parallel universe. Not background listening but not foreground either; this is ambient music in the best sense. Here’s hoping you can track this down.

Eh?  27

Contact: Public Eyesore Records

Richard Grooms