Locd04r - L W T V - Put on the Headphone and Turn to 10 (limited 50 cdr)

Bio:
Music sounded like shit until I first heard the Velvets in my 15th year of existence. At the time I was living alone in Vancouver, Canada, sitting in a snowed apartment with one light and a crackling Fisher-price record player, and ever since I had been making irritable electric noise for my neighbours and friends to endure.
Growing up listening to Bob Dylan and The Beatles' records of my dad, they never truly resonate with me. From the Velvet Underground, the education went on from Suicide to Jesus and The Marychain; from P J Harvey to The Kills. What I found was the ever-present drone. Years later I finally and accidentally found Tony Conrad, the electric Violinist who first started it all along with The Velvets' John Cale. I could never leave amplified strings then, and there is no going back.

在我第十五年的存在，The Velvet Underground改變了我對音樂的看法。當時我正一個人住在溫哥華，坐在暴風雪中、只亮著一顆電燈泡的公寓裡，聆聽著快要報廢的Fisher-price玩具唱盤。從那時起，我開始不停地為我的鄰居和朋友帶來自家製造的刺耳的電氣噪音。
幼年時我爹給我播放Bob Dylan和The Beatles的唱片，可是統統沒有帶來甚麼共鳴。從The Velvet Under-ground，我的自行教育繼續往Drone的方向發展：由Suicide到Jesus and The Marychain；由P J Harvey到The Kills。多年後我終於意外地找到電子小提琴家Tony Conrad的音樂記錄。這位大師當年與John Cale一起把電子弦樂發揚光大，從而深深地把我擄著。沒有回頭路了，沒有回頭路了。

About this release :
Put on the Headphone and Turn to 10 was recorded in Mid-Feburary 2005. Mr. Bob Brown and I were comrades in Industrial-noise-sound explorations for about three years at the time, and we had been performing at various venues from art gallery openings to opening spots for a country band at a dive bar on a Saturday night under various names such as The Tonal Syndicate, //num, and The SARS. Bob makes most of his own instruments out of factories' junk and discarded vintage gears found on the road side. His home-made low frequency instrument called the Discordia was made out of a piece of long maple wood with various metallic machinaries attached to both ends, holding an E bass string that used to be tuned to the hum of his cabinet speaker, on the right side of the piece he attached an adjustible arm that carries a Fender bass pickup. Towards the beginning of 2005 he incorporated a Yamaha electric keyboard with sampling functions. The Discordia is set on a broken floor tom, which also serves as a cymbal stand. The cymbal is also a broken one. He would use the Discordia for sustained drone notes using an old violin bow, and adjust the timbre and tone through an equaliser.

My second guitar was an unplayable 50's Japanese-made Guyatone/Kent four pick-ups guitar I bought for $65 Cdn. The intonation was terrible and so was the action, the pick ups were superb though. I ran my guitar through a custom-made mid-range booster, a custom-made fuzz pedal, a Garnet reverb unit, and a 1968 Sears Silvertone twin-twelve amplifier with built-in reverb and tremolo unit, a solid state version of the same amp used by the Velvet Underground. Prior to the recording, the neck has been broken off the guitar twice during our travellings on the road, and it seemed with each accident, the guitar gotten to sound better everytime. The electric viola was factory-made from China, and I also ran it through the same set up as the guitar.

The drone. Tony Conrad mentioned a lack of rhythm in his minimalism stands for a lack of political stance. Bob and I went from there, and shortly after we realised that although that was the ideal, him and I had a stand and we could not escape rhythm. We are anarchists. Each bit of sound we make we strived for freedom and primal passion. We aimed to make the most violent and ugliest sound, in which tranquility and beauty is hoped to be found. We sought to experience the full spectrum of emotions, and sometimes we went beyond our knowledge of all that we feel.

We were aware of the alienation felt in a capitalists' social structure, and it was our hope to agitate people's dull emotional life with our music, to make people feel alive through the threat of life with our decibles of joy.

TRACKLISTING :
01.Beast of the east rises with fall of the west 10:55
02.We'll do another drone 09:34

Review:
LWTV是Vince這位從加拿大返港的年輕樂手之化身，現為人頭馬的結他手。對他影響最為深遠，是傳奇性紐約樂團The Velvet Underground，而他也是一名Suicide的超級擁躉，同時前衞樂手Tony Conrad的電小提琴演奏亦帶給他莫大的啟蒙。LWTV的音樂，亦流露著他強烈的Avant-Rock風骨。

他為3” CD-R單曲系列帶來的Put On The Headphone And Turn To 10，兩首曲目是Vince去年2月收錄於加拿大的現場演出片段，除了Vince之外還有其音樂拍擋Bob Brown負責演奏他的自製低頻樂器Discordia及敲擊。

長達十一分鐘的Beast Of The East Rises With Fall Of The West，泛著是宛如The Velvet Underground的迷幻崩壞結他演奏，Bob的Discordia與敲擊，讓樂曲來得活像祭禮音樂的狀態，盡是破爛非常的Avant-Rock美學。要領教他的電小提琴功架，則可在We’ll Do Another Drone此曲中尋見，迷魂的Off-Key電小提琴Droning在空氣中停不了的迴盪，再次是一首像毒品般的樂章。---  by 袁智聰 (Mcb On-line)