• Album review

    • Original Silence - The First Original Silence

    • Rating: * * * * no star no star
    • Format: Album
    • Label: Smalltown Superjazz
    • Reviewed by Sharon O’Connell
    • Posted: Mon May 21 2007
  • This wryly titled offering from Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke and two members of Nordic free-jazzers The Thing, among others, is a 60-minute (two-track) slab of awesomely intense, wholly improvised avant noise. It represents the appeal of extreme improv from Boredoms to Sunn O))) – thus what at first might appear as an impenetrable wall slowly opens up to reveal perversely beautiful wormholes of melody, rhythm and texture. Not for the faint-hearted or the fragile-eared – or those in shared housing, perhaps – but still hugely thrilling.

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