Anguilliform by Beeg Ceety Orcheestra

 

Big City Orchestra is an American DIY taping underground experimental  music institution. For over 45 years or probably even more it has provided the listeners with a richness of feature releases, collaborative work  with variety of artists. 

It is still going strong with their constant radio shows and releases online and physical ones too.

Tribe Tapes has re-released their tape from 1996 plus some extras.

The contents of this cd is filled with post-industrial edge of experimental noise ambient, set with drones and murky themes.

There is so much more to this music on this cd - the over-glitched  spoken word, playing on prepared instruments of the unknown origin and many more aspects that only add up to the fact that even though the material here is almost thirty years old, it hasn't aged at all and still has relevance beyond an archive value which itself is also very important.

When you look at the discography of BCO - it might strike you as one of their more experimental, obscure releases but it also caught an important moment in the history of  underground music which is just a glimpse before it has gone all digital - here using more analogue sources and autodidact strategies. It is a great lesson of compositional self-sustainability and boldness of expressing your ideas through music.

Kudos to Eriek Van Havere for consistency and patience in his work. 

Original cassette (tracks 1-6) by EE Tapes (ET36, 1996).

CD reissue + bonus "Sound Effects Library 22" (tracks 7-21) by EE Tapes, Belgium and Tribe Tapes, USA.

credits

released July 1, 2024

Mastering by Grant Richardson, Hex Audio Labs.

Design by Max Eastman.

Artwork by Drew Dobbs.

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