Ahleuchatistas (2008) The Same and the Other (re-release von 2004)

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[size=12pt]Ahleuchatistas :  The Same and the Other (re-release von 2004)[/size]

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Genre - Instrumenteller Rock/Grindcore
Released Feb 2008
cd time - 46:18

1. Cracked Teeth
2. Ecstasy Combat Boots
3. Imperceptibility
4. Good Question
5. Falling Bards
6. Lee Kyang Hae
7. RPG 1
8. RPG 2
9. RPG 3
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still
11. Shots Rang Out at the Press Conference
12. Joyous Disruptions
13. Ostensible Constable
14. Clickety Quake
15. A Classic Future
16. Trnkas Hand
17. Prelude to a Mess


Ahleuchatistas is a slamming instrumental rock trio that has been active since 2001. Out of print for years, their second album was recorded fresh off of tour in a blistering hot basement and stands as one of the most intense documents of compositional rock complexity ever recorded. Reissued here with five exciting bonus tracks from the same sessions, this is a long awaited reissue of a cult rock masterpiece.


Personnel:
Sean Dail: Drums
Shane Perlowin: Guitar
Derek Poteat: Bass


In February 2008, our second album THE SAME AND THE OTHER will be re-issued on Tzadik. This is the label founded in 1995 by saxophonist/composer John Zorn. It is a great honor for us to become a part of this vital institution. The album will appear on Tzadiks Composer Series. It has been re-mastered by the great Scott Hull and contains five previously un-released bonus tracks. There are new liner notes and Courtney Chappells original stunning artwork remains on the cover, looking better than ever in the Composer Series layout, with a package re-design by Chippy.
We have parted on good terms with NFI, who initially released this album in October 2004, and sincerely thank John and Matt for their support early on, and wish John good luck with the little one on the way.
The 12" vinyl for THE SAME AND THE OTHER is still available from Hello Sir Records, while supplies of this limited pressing last.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/re...-the-other

Ahleuchatistas
The Same and the Other
[NFI; 2004]
Rating: 8.0


We are at war. People differ on exactly what the nature of that war is, where we should be fighting it, and how effective our current tactics are, but people are dying in more than one country, violence is a daily headline, and the political discourse in this country inevitably strays to it-- even as we try to focus on other things. It makes sense that the art of our times should reflect this basic fact, and indeed, its begun to; from novelists like Philip Roth to aging rock stars like R.E.M., basic questions of American values and power are being addressed. America is polarized-- perhaps moreso than at any other time in the post-Vietnam era-- and so it happens that even artists whose art is devoid of words or open sentiment take pains to politicize what they do, and Asheville, NCs Ahleuchatistas are no exception. For the second time in less than a year, theyve released an album of confrontational, heady instrumentals that reflect the conflict and violence of our era, and packaged it in provocative artwork.

The "tistas" portion of the bandname is a reference to Mexicos indigenous peoples Zapatista movement, named originally for would-be Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. (He never did affect his desired coup.) The band means this reference as a sort of shoutout to oppressed people around the world and throughout history-- indeed the "Ahleucha" portion of their name comes from the title of an improvisational piece by a black American, Charlie Parker-- and the cover of this album puts their thoughts about the current war in Iraq, on display for anyone who cares to look. Painted by Courtney Chappell, its a powerful, cubistically fractured skyline (presumably the mosque-dotted profile of Baghdad) being bombed by an F-15, as obviously Muslim women contort in agony in the foreground. The primary subject matter of the image actually shouldnt cause much controversy in my view-- is there anyone with a conscience who doesnt sympathize with the poor civilians caught in the middle of all of this?-- but the implication of an essentially American-perpetrated atrocity might not play terribly well to those not on the left.

Okay, okay, so the guys in the trio arent thrilled that were in Iraq, but what does that have to do with their instrumental music? Well, everything and nothing. Out of context, its precise, brutal troublefunk-- pointilistic free jazz for the scrapyard set and not for ears that are too attached to consonance. In context, its bombs over Baghdad, firefights, and blood running in the streets. You dont have to read it solely as a critique of American force, either-- it works just as well as a sonic allegory for the daily atrocities visited upon the Iraqi populace by various factions of the insurgency.

Ahleuchatistas may play heavy, challenging music with a lot of baggage, but they keep their approach steadfastly clear: Distortion is absent from both the bass of Derek Poteat and the guitar of Shane Perlowin, and Sean Dail is a brilliantly economical drummer, reminiscent in his best moments of Bill Bruford in his King Crimson prime. Poteat and Perlowin play a game of strike and counterstrike, mimicking wars sick spiral, and the intensity level is ridiculously high for the albums full 28-minute duration. Its a concise and wickedly effective concentration and the sturm und drang that they stretched twice as far on their debut, On the Culture Industry.

Ultimately, when listening to The Same and the Other, you can take the Wassily Kandinsky approach-- abstract art is concrete, he famously insisted-- or you can take the more tempting and likely approach and read it as an allegory for contemporary strife and suffering. After all, even much abstract art carries a title and a story (pretense, if you will), and ignoring those things limits the experience to a viewing exercise. On that score, this album is a powerful statement and an explosive piece of music.

-Joe Tangari, October 18, 2004

www.myspace.com/ahleuchatistas

Sperriger instrumental Rock/Grind im Stile Orthrelms, Ocrilims, aelteren Behold...the Arctopus. Re-mastered und auf John Zorns Tzadik Label re-released. Musik fuer Liebhaber
8/10