Reporter: Logan K. Young
'RETRO: Germany's zeitkratzer Transcribe, Transform Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music'
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'RETRO: John Fitz Rogers, 'Transit' feat. Michael Nicollela (Gale Recordings)
Upon a cursory listening only, composer and decorated University of South Carolina professor John Fitz Rogers' Gale Recordings release Transit seems to owe more to Emerson, Lake and Palmer than Varèse, Ligeti or Nancarrow. Nonetheless, after acquiring the composer's score, through-composed to near fault, it's quite obvious that Transit, as a completely notated work of art, does indeed exist in a state of impassioned, yet precise flux. -
'REVIEW: Drilling A Hole Through The Sky: 30 Years Of The Haters
(Format 23,5x16 cm.) Armed with a large drill-bit, GX Jupitter-Larsen hurls himself from 3,000 meters. During descent, he drills a hole in the sky as literal as only he could -- ∆G all along the "polywave." And thus the title of this handsomely packaged, shoddily reproduced grimoire from John Wiese's Helicopter imprint.