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blue thirty​-​three

by The Begotten

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Side A 21:03
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Side B 22:29

about

A music of eerie winds and rattle and moans. This debut from improvisational sonic-horror masters The Begotten collates members and collaborators of groups such as Teleplasmiste, Gnod and and Rude Mechanicals. It's a darkly engrossing aural narrative that takes your imagination to some surreal places. Despite being entirely improvised, the listener is perhaps struck most of all by what seems like a fantastically deliberate use of mise en scène.

Originally formed to provide a one-off live soundtrack to an ultra-rare screening of E. Elias Merhige's sublime howl of cinematic blasphemy, the 1989 lo-fi silent horror classic Begotten, the group are rapidly becoming fixtures on the London experimental music scene as an entity in their own right thanks to a series of rapturous performances.

Recommended if you like: Blue Tapes artists like Father Murphy or Jute Gyte, space as an instrument, music as weather, sound as psychology.

Praise for blue thirty-three:

"The Begotten‘s debut release is a subtly shifting improvised spectrescape that opens on rattling chains and soft vocalisations, bells chiming a welcoming tocsin that soon becomes subsumed in the wafting drones and ominous scrapings that the quartet construct gradually into a viscous maze of unheimlich uncertainty." - Freq

credits

released December 9, 2019

The Begotten are:
William Fowler, Justin Harries, Mark O Pilkington, Jo Fisher Roberts.

All tracks recorded live between 2015 & 2018

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For more than 10 years, Blue Tapes has curated a numbered series of releases emphasising different aspects of minimal music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with appropriately minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork. ... more

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