CLIKATAT IKATOWI - The Trials And Tribulations Of... 3xLP BOXSET Color:Black Vinyl

CLIKATAT IKATOWI - The Trials And Tribulations Of... 3xLP BOXSET Color:Black VinylUnhinged, damaged art punk from San Diego's mid '90s Gravity scene. Gathered here are Clikatat Ikatowis three albumsOrchestrated And Conducted By, River Of Souls, and a first time vinyl pressing for their 1993 demo, all remixed and remastered from the original analog tapes. The accompanying 24 page book pairs Tony Rettmans colorful essay with dozens of period photos and flyers, an in depth history of a city and scene that defined the shape of noise to

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and I’m still hearing things I never caught before or marveling anew at the sonic genius: the way the drums play the melody while the guitars hold down the rhythm through the first half of “Raised Eyebrows”

the pluck of a monochord lute and relentless pounding percussion combine in a dizzying nonstop session

On these recordings we find Jesse playing guitar

when she coos more animatedly over organ-like arpeggios and digitized stabs

‘Everybody Knows’

“The Crying Pill” stacks frantic patterns of saxophone-like sobs onto deep sub bass stabs that are almost trap

from so ancient

The unrestrained energy was captured at Hyperballad Studios by engineers Matt Labozza and Morgan Miller

” Expect nothing less from Nils Frahm on "Paris"

locking into irregular grooves with Belfi’s drums

assisted and digitalized by Anne Krausz