3 x CD (Sold Out) / DL
Out Now
Music Zine releases mammoth three disc experimental/improv
compilation.
People of a certain age will remember that before blogs on
the internet, we had fanzines. They were
lovingly assembled by amateur publishers, fans and hopefuls and, given away or
sold simply as a hobby and to cover costs.
They were rife in city centres and football grounds. They were a means of unofficial communication
and of personal views that often aligned with your own, they were fun.
There seems to be a resurgence of zines of late,
particularly on the music scene and more specifically with the alternative and experimental
genres. Once such zine is TQ, started by
one Andy Wood, it focusses specifically on left field tastes and has grown in
one year from four sides of stapled A5 to a professional looking publication
with almost 200 subscribers from the UK, Japan, America, Australia and Finland
to name but a few. TQ has hit a nerve.
To mark the first anniversary of existence, TQ has assembled
a thirty-two track compilation of wide-ranging tastes all encompassed under the
‘ no audience underground’ – a term coined by Rob Hayler of Radio Free Midwich
– whereby the scene of these such artists ‘is’ the audience. The concept was simple – three artworks by Ash
Cooke were distributed and artists were asked to submit racks based on their
interpretation of them. It’s an
enthralling concept and one which seems to be thriving.
With Covering The Covers, every alternative genre seems to
be included and you may recognise some of the names from our own pages – Nat
Lyon, Radio Europa, Chow Mwng resting shoulder to shoulder with unknowns who
you will grow to love. The majority of
the collection is termed as ‘noise’ with nods to drone and ambient, with Lyon
contributing his own style of pastoral punk, and the tracklistin is skilfully
done with tracks flowing into each other as with the reverb heavy Xqui and
Joined By Wire.
Tracks like Sleep Sleep Sleep Go To Sleep (Knives) are like
nothing you will have heard before and hilarious at the same time as being
slightly disturbing. Number Poem For TQ
(Posset) maybe reminds of I Before E Except After C from Yazoo’s 1982 debut
album and, the expletive rambling of Halo Dragonfly on Quartin Shite x3 is an absolute
joy. As with any album of this sort, it’s difficult to start to pick favourites
but anyone with a name like The Daughters Of Conceptual Sex Death deserve a
mention.
This is an album for the challenged and the challenging, the
disturbed and the disturbing. A mammoth
collection for a mammoth mind. The
triple cd of the limited 100 edition is already sold out but the final copy, together
with a host of goodies, is currently being auctioned for charity via the TQ
Twitter account here:
5 days and 2 hours left to bid for TQ COVERING THE COVERS ART BOX no.100/100. 3 cd’s of experimental, DIY, drone sounds, a No- Audience underground essay, TQ12, art work, and multiple DL’s + Dragon cd from @XquiMusic . Bid at andywood23@hotmail.com. Current bid is £30 exc postage— TQ (@tarquinwood23) July 18, 2018
The advice is to subscribe to this zine, if nothing else to
enjoy the seemingly endless stream of giveaways and enjoy an experimental scene
that just simply refuses to die.
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