XXX Macarena LP
Primary Information and From The Nursery are pleased to announce their first collaborative release, an album by XXX MACARENA, a band comprised of Tony Conrad on violin, Jutta Koether on synthesizer, and John Miller on guitar. XXX MACARENA was recorded live at the Kunsthalle Zurich in June 2009. The performance is an entirely improvised 42-minute piece that ranges from microscopic detail to seismic wall-of-sound, full of intensities and introspection; a composition in-the-moment like a crime, understood as somehow both premeditated and a matter of chance.
Blazingly heavy three-way that pits violinist/improviser Tony Conrad against two visual artists, Jutta Koether and John Miller. Koether plays synth, dropping naive clusters of atonal chords into the path of Conrad’s disembowelling violin while Miller plays some squealing acid-soaked leads. Easily one of the most intense and densely psychedelic outings for Conrad outside of his duo with Keiji Haino and one that ranges from tiny, mesmeric string tonalities through avalanches of feedback. Edition of 500 numbered copies on blue vinyl.
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