Blue Sausage Infant - Flight of the Solstice Queens [zero010]
- Artist: Blue Sausage Infant
- Title: Flight of the Solstice Queens
- Format: CD
- Release Date: Apr, 2010
- Price: $10.00
| 1 | Gezundheit! | 3:45 | ||
| 2 | Flight Of The Solstice Queens | 6:24 | ||
| 3 | Space | 7:13 | ||
| 4 | Locust Of Control | 5:45 | ||
| 5 | Radiant Arc | 6:13 | ||
| 6 | Why You Hate Salamanders | 4:09 | ||
| 7 | Ashtray Man | 6:19 | ||
| 8 | The Sentimental Communist | 12:16 |
Description
A deep dose of sonic escapism served in a variety of flavors, from the layered drone of pure head music to earthy krautrock grooves, full-on noise, and sound collage. With assistance by Michael Shanahan (Reanimation), Jason Mullinax (Pilesar), Gary Rouzer (Vector Trio), and Jeff Surak (Violet).
Blue Sausage Infant - Radiant ArcReviews
“This guy might be all over the place, but he knows what he is doing. An excellent release. A must have and a must see when he plays live” ~ Vital Weekly (FdW)
“Blue Sausage Infant takes warp leaps through a wide range of fringe and avant schemes, starting with weird psychotic noise and landing in krautrock, psychedelic feedback noise and weird soundscapes along the way… Chester Hawkins will celebrate his twenty-fifth stage anniversary next year, a full quarter of a century acting the Blue Sausage Infant with a legacy of fifteen albums, lots of compilation contributions, parts of a movie soundtrack and unforgettable live shows. And you only heard about the kid now?” ~ Cracked (Austria)
”Radiant Arc,” one of my favorites, gets in a rad as fuck groove, somehow both chill and rocking, and stays there the entire time with droning organ melodies and intermittent squelches of electronics. I could just listen to that jam for the entire album, eyes closed, head keeping in time with the propulsive beat, and letting the [closed eye hallucinations] take over…” ~ Diskant (UK)
“Depending on your particular point of view, the fact that this album sounds so much like Nurse With Wound may or may not be a good thing, but an experience that Mr. Hawkins provides on this flight/trip is well worth the price of admission.” ~ I Heart Noise (USA)
“Flight of the Solstice Queens is quite schizophonic in nature, see-sawing between driving space rock and wandering textured drones… Perhaps Blue Sausage Infant is purposely creating two very different science fiction worlds at once. Regardless, Flight of the Solstice Queens is a very epic ride.” ~ Furthernoise.org
“Eight tracks of very varied music spanning such genres as black, bad-acid fuelled psychedelic rock to powerful and intense episodes of cold, semi-ambient industrialoid nightmare-scapes…” ~ The Sound Projector (UK)
“The music is as strange as the name, mixing electronics, cut-ups, live instruments, and synths to produce an exhilarating blend that reminds me of Porest, in the way it switches styles yet retains a sense of its own identity.” ~ Terrascope (UK)
"Flight of the Solstice Queens is an excellent example of where modern experimental is going, or at least one would hope. It has a good smacking of humor, electronic soundscapes, noise, and pretty much everything you'd look for in this kind of music. The tag shouldn't be used as a watermark, however, because Blue Sausage Infant provides several distinct moods throughout this album that are not best served by genre cataloging. There's a refreshing amount of diversity to be found, something lacking in releases of this type, almost as though several awesome bands got together and finally released a compilation that was solid throughout instead of with the usual one or two good songs and a ton of shit. This is head music for those of you who actually have a head. There's groove, there's atmosphere, there's everything you're looking for." ~ deaf sparrow
"Blue Sausage Infant, ein Projekt aus Washington DC, ist bereits seit 1986 aktiv und hat über zehn CDR Releases vorzuweisen. Erst jetzt gibt es auf Zeromoon die erste echte CD – und was für eine!. Alles beginnt mit dem Verschnitt popkultureller Versatzstsücke, so dass man – inklusive Coverimpression eines Menschen in Hasenkostüm – erst einmal auf die Plunderphonic Fährte gelockt wird. Dies ändert sich aber spätestens im dritten Track, Space, der eine düstere Synthfläche entrollt und Vintage-Sounds zu unversöhnlichem Ambientmatsch ineinander faltet. Spätestens hier bleibt den lieben Cultural Studies Studenten ihr Lachen in der Kehle stecken. Der Tenor des Albums bleibt von diesem Moment an dunkel, auch wenn die Mittel changieren. Manchmal scheint ein leibhaftiges Schlagzeug am Werke zu sein, dann klingt es wieder nach frühen Czukay-Szenarien, mit viel Bass und Stimmengemurmel. Blue Sausage Infant war für uns eine echte Entdeckung!"~ Zipo, aufabwegen