The Musique Fragile Volume 02 box set 3x180gLP vinyl edition is a silkscreen print extravanganza. Each album comes in its own 2-3 colour screenprinted jacket accompanied by a screenprinted poster, and the three albums are contained in a 2-colour screenprinted slipbox hand-made from thick 100% recycled chipboard.
Please see Musique Fragile Vol. 02 for packaging components when this album is purchased as part of the 3-album Musique Fragile set.
THIS ALBUM IS PART OF MUSIQUE FRAGILE VOL. 02.
180gLP FORMAT ONLY AVAILABLE WHEN PURCHASED AS PART OF LIMITED EDITION BOX SET.
1. Flying Fast n Furious
2. Transit Of Venus
3. Principles
4. Bright Arc Of Light
5. Gentil The Unlucky Astronomer
6. Panorama From Maxwell Montes
Running time: 00:43:49
The Musique Fragile Volume 02 box set 3x180gLP vinyl edition is a silkscreen print extravanganza. Each album comes in its own 2-3 colour screenprinted jacket accompanied by a screenprinted poster, and the three albums are contained in a 2-colour screenprinted slipbox hand-made from thick 100% recycled chipboard.
Please see Musique Fragile Vol. 02 for packaging components when this album is purchased as part of the 3-album Musique Fragile set.
"Conrad's pinched string drone dovetails perfectly with Geneviève Heistek's thin sawing on the violin and viola. Conrad's collaboration with Faust is a bit of touchstone here, yet this trio, with Heistek and drummer Eric Craven, covers a great deal of ground. Some tracks, especially "Principles," exude a latent funkiness evoking the Pop Group's seductive menace. Elsewhere, woven metallic lattices of string drone are draped across a soft, insistent percussion pulse, and hoarse, reedy clouds are intercepted by robust drums and distant percolations." – Exclaim
"'Gentil The Unlucky Astronomer' is a grand unification of Conrad and Heistek’s string theories with Craven’s constant coupling drums… Unlike some of Conrad and Hangedup’s efforts divorced from one another, the exposition here pretty much provides everything ye need know; for such a seemingly careening track, 'Gentil The Unlucky Astronomer' ultimately proves quite organic." – Ad-Hoc
"[Hangedup's] core duo of viola and drums is augmented, suspended, tortuously and deliberately ill-harmonised and rhythmically scattered by Conrad’s advance-technique playing. Craven’s drums steamroll through the droning, harmonious, clanging string arrangements, powerfully underpinning the cacophony. Punk stretched to its instrumental, creative and dynamic limits, perhaps… Breathtaking." – Squealer
"Droning violin and massive noise riffs dominate the listen, striking as much fear as admiration into the listener. From the opening number – 'Flying Fast N Furious', which somehow sounds like a plane landing, even as the energy increases and the song slams forces the gas pedal through the floorboard – to the final tense moments of 'Panorama From Maxwell Montes', the trio invokes ghosts and terror. Outside of 'Bright Arc Of Light', there is little sunshine to be found on Transit of Venus, but HangedUp & Tony Conrad remind us all of the beauty of the most powerful storms." – HeroHill
"'Panorama From Maxwell Montes' is a slow tango, every bit as serpentine and carnal as that description implies. Here the strings all but snap from heat, and the centrifugal improvisation serves up heavy gravity." – The Muse In Music
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