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Live at I/O

- Released
- 2008
- Format
- CD-R
- Label
- Barbelo
- Cat
- BarbeloCD2003
- Artwork
- Andy Wilson
- Personel
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- Andy Wilson
- Simon Crab
- Purchase
- £8 + p&p from Barbelo Records
- Links
- Notes
- Private release. CD-R in mini DVD case with full colour cover and label. Recorded live at The Spitz Club, London, 26th April 2001. The Hallucinogenic Toreador is a studio bonus track.
Release Notes
Note that the CD release contained only parts 3 & 4 of the concert. At the time of its release recordings of the earlier parts of the concert could not be found. The Hallucinogenic Toreador was a demo recorded for Bourbonese Qualk but never used.
1 | Part #3 | 8:23 |
2 | Part #4 | 18:03 |
3 | The Hallucinogenic Toreador | 50:54 |
Reviews
Freq: Audio Hailstones
Bourbonese Qualk have been at the experimental music game for quite a while, so it was especially pleasing to find Simon Crab and new cohort Andy Wilson included int he line-up. Onceagain it was laptops at 30 paces as Bourbonese Qualk throbbed into action. building up a threnody of liquid samples which rose into burbling sheets of audio hailstones emerging into patterns of sound-drops of room-filling intensity.
A respite into darkly tinkling ambience of music box electronica of shimmering, disturbing aspect offset by bass warmth and a wistful sense of mordant dread followed, while the backdrop expanded out into kaleidoscopic abstraction and geometric blocks. With electronic dub tendencies emerging to make a bolder link into the groove possibilities inherent in sequenced music, the click-swathed rhythms merged up to the level of circling drones to slow-paced hypnotic effect. As the music changed, so did the visuals, with images of digital cityscapes focussing ont he windows of the different block providing a suitable accompaniment. A change of pace followed, gliding up-tempo into full-tilt delay FX spasms of whittled down, warped up noise to the degradation of the bitmaps behind.
Sound soon became disengaged into raucus judders and frenetic non-beats as virtual chaos ensued onstage, with rapid-fire pilses underpinning a drilling refrain. The conclusion came through a slow descent via looped, vaguely hip-hop rhythms and the rising swell of mid-range tones which became even noisier by stages. The end was a dense shuffle of non-swinging beats and layered deviant sound disolved finally into a breathtaking cyclone of meta-sussurus. Bourbonese Qualk put on quite a show, definitely the highlight of the gig.
Richard Fontenoy, FREQ Magazine
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Qualk (Crab and Andy) at the Sintesi Festival, Naples, 12/04/2002 |
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Qualk (Steven Tanza) at the Sintesi Festival, Naples, 12/04/2002 |
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Qualk at the Sintesi Festival, Naples, 12/04/2002 |
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Qualk at the Sintesi Festival, Naples, 12/04/2002 |
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Qualk at the Sintesi Festival, Naples, 12/04/2002 |