Japanese vocalist Junko Hiroshige's murderous wail hypercubes Patty Waters, Yoko Ono, and the titular victim in Olivia de Havilland’s 1972 crime flick The Screaming Woman, while Yves Botz, Thierry Delles, and Michel Henritzi extend the trad power trio into a Marclay mash with brutal rock’n’roll energies. The Dustbreeders formed in the late ’80s around the concept of anti-records, performances, exhibitions and other oblique strategies. They compensated for the absence of technique with mechanical instrumentation; with their instruments of choice — walkman, tape recorder, and, as of 1999, when they began using old mange-disques exclusively (aka “slot-in record players,” portable 7-inch phonographs from the ’70s) connected to guitar amps — mix quotations into a brutally indifferent stew in which pop, jazz, exotica, and hard rock sink into feedback and electrical noise.
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released February 9, 2004
Yves Botz, Thierry Delles and Michel Henritzi: mange-disques, effects, amps
Junko: voice
Photos: Christophe Sorro
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