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Mort aux Vaches

by Illusion of Safety

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    Third in the Mort Aux Vaches series.

    "Measuring strength of ultra-violet radiation in the July sunshine".

    All music improvised by Dan Burke & Kurt Griesch.
    Commissioned by VPRO's Nachtleven 'Grand Disco Classique', Amsterdam 20.5.95

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ILLUSION OF SAFETY: Mort Aux Vaches Staalplaat No Number CD
The latest CD by Illusion of Safety (aka Dan Burke and Kurt Griesch)
is a provocative blend of Improv and Ambient. Two tracks at
approximately 25 and 30 minutes respectively; both are entirely
improvised and make extremely sensitive use of field recordings and
electronic sound processing. The first opens with fragmentary avant-
piano set against gravel-metallic noises--tiny sounds amplified until
they become all-encompassing and disturbing. Thereafter, the dynamic
range is mostly reduced to subdued, expansive drones and murmurs,
punctuated by distorted chimes and cymbals. Sometimes there's just a
hair's breath between sound and 'silence'. Like the work of AMM,
Morphogenesis and Organium, Mort Auz Vaches takes on environmental
proportions as it seeps imperceptibly into your urban landscape:
passing cars, even those multiphoning starlings on my roof, with
their Evan Parker impersonations, were determined to be part of the
overall sound design. Listened to on headphones, you become more
aware of Burke and Griesch's marvelous timing and pacing as you hear
the even tinier, submerged sounds - pops and crackles, tremulous
metallic resonances, half-heard voices, a finger rubbed across a
stylus as Pere Ubu's David Thomas once sang: The smallest details,
the finest points, they all add up." One of the most quietly riveting
albums I've heard. Chris Blackford, The Wire.

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released May 6, 1996

All music improvised by Dan Burke & Kurt Griesch.
Commissioned by VPRO's Nachtleven 'Grand Disco Classique', Amsterdam 20.5.95. Edition of 1,000 copies. Cd comes inside a multi-fold out cover, with a fastener. Third in the Mort Aux Vaches series on Staalplaat. Artwork – Rob Meerman Edited By [Live Tape Editing] – Areon Autics*

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Illusion of Safety Elgin, Illinois

Since 1983, Burke and his many conspirators under the IOS banner have over the course of 40+ releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. ... more

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