24th Jan 08

What:
Quick Be the Feet That Run to Mischief

Who:
Snawklor

On:
Outer

MySpace:
Here

Launch:
At MASH OUT next week, Thurs Jan 31 at The Toff, with Fabulous Diamonds and Paeces

Related links:
Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell
Download prior Snawklor albums here

Rivaling, maybe surpassing, the natural world in terms of dimension and mystic order, Snawklor's work unfurls in blooms and retractions akin to living organisms. At fascinating odds to most groups' approaches to music as a tool for personal expression, this decade-running Melbourne duo seems less interested in capturing sounds than in setting them free; less in representing themselves than in re-birthing their natural environment. For this, they're 'Sound-Art' for sure... but of a spiritual and joyous kind, anathema to common sado-Modernist techniques.

Like a child learning to talk, transcendentally lost in an open loop of speaking and listening, Quick Be the Feet That Run to Mischief is a single, forty-minute track that seems somehow, and beautifully, in communication with itself. The fifth Snawklor album proper, it finds Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell in familiar electro-acoustic territory, live-processing countless microphoned sounds that are worked-up into swirling, high-definition arrangements.

Combining plucked strings, found percussion, trumpet, whispers, synth tones and pure electronics, Quick Be the Feet... pulses with the hidden, omniscient force of an ecology.

By Mark Gomes

Win:
Thanks to Nathan and Dylan, we have three copies of the album to give away. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'set the sounds free'

By Mark Gomes

Release: Album

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