This puzzling display of punk/jazz surrealism is masterminded by Nondor Nevai on drums and vocals, featuring Weasel Walter on bass and legendary journeyman Kenny Millions (aka Keshavan Maslak) on guitar and reeds, a sort of unholy fusion between extreme metal, bludgeoning noise rock, free jazz, black humor and true stream-of-consciousness improvisation.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2010 Country: USA Packaging: Digipack Recorded at Devils Fork, in Devils Fork, New York, on January 13th, 2010, by Nondor Nevai.
"Among the best musicians on earth, Kenny Millions (sax, Guitar) is joined on fretless bass by Weasel Walter in a consummately PUNK-JAZZ asskick produced and percussed by Nandor Nevai who also adds a panoply of vocals from guttural to whispered. The spelling ov the name (and the aesthetic thereby implied) fuses VON LMO with SADISTIK EXEKUTION.
The personnel (Seth Putnam on guest vokills) on the first track alone certify this album as authentic neoclassical noisecore. In largo mode, it reads as some nasty militant no-wave plodding out from the same neighborhood as early SWANS, but with Maslak's pristine museumy saxoponik element that runs stylistik and contextually amok over WW's panfluent low-string-string-pickin'. NN's (audible and well-foley'd) pipe-hit-in-the-parking-lot sleaze factor and curiously disparate drum engineering (by WW) adds a hickory stain like a tipped-over-chewin'-tobaccy-saliva-spill on the Sym- ov Maslak and Walter's -Phonia...even the live material sans Maslak is releasable, and then just Walter and Maslak did another show proving they need no one but their lone pairing to exhibit NO MOR MUSIK to a degree ov severity that must be embarrassing to the approximal "candy-asses in So-ho". N
MM's alloy is not new, it is germane to the ilk ov PAINKILLER and similar; what it brings to the table is the presence ov mutually-exclusive extremes ov high (neoclassical) and low (noise-grind). "-Nándor Névai