K-Group-Screen LATHE 7" NZ edtn 31 Surface Of The Earth
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$ 53
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Jun 6, 2011
Sold Date
May 30, 2011
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$ 40
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K-Group - Screen/Cars & Soft Network LATHE CUT NZ 7" (World Resources NZ)
Very very rare lathe cut 7" from K-Group, solo project of Surface Of The Earth's guitarist Paul Toohey.This was a one time edition of 31 copies.
It is an essential chapter in one of New Zealand's most essential drone outfits canon.
K-Group had one full length on Bruce Russell of The Dead C's Corpus Hermeticum imprint and two splits with New Zealand sound artist Omit (one on Fusetron and one on the late Jason DiEmilio of the Azusa Plane's Colorful Clouds For Acoustics imprint).
Surface Of The Earth also ran the World Resources imprint which released works from SoTE, K-Group, The Garbage And The Flowers and The New Zealand Guitar Orchestra (members of Surface Of The Earth and The Garbage And The Flowers).
noisedotas says of Surface Of The Earth and K-Group:
One of the more recent bands of note to come out of NZ, Wellington in fact, (one of the few bands of note to come out of Wellington...) Surface of the Earth have, as far as I'm aware, just a couple of releases generally available. There's a 7" inch and an LP Interference both on Fusetron and a CD on Corpus Hermeticum. Low frequency drones, dense guitar churn, long sustained feedback flow...gorgeous almost ambient drones wrap around your head like some kind of warm, loving entity that wants to plug you into some "special" reality. Or, to put it simply, Taking the fundamental frequencies of electric mains power as their main themes, (Surface of the Earth) have created a universe of austere beauty where listening to nothing happen can rivet your head to the nearest wall. They use synth drones, guitars and mutilated electronic debris to create a soundspace where layers of distortion, hum and buzz hang like veils in the air, each disrupting the aural view of the layer beneath, without completely obscuring it from audibility. Imagine if you will, a distortion without soundsource to distort, a reverberation without an initial sound to echo, and you are close to grasping the magic of Surface of the Earth. Justified hype. Also applicable to K-Group, a side project utilizing guitar and electronics from S.O.T.E-er Paul Toohey, made available by the friendly Corpus Hermeticum crew. Kind of inseperable from S.O.T.E. but operating at slightly different frequencies; here are some of the richest noise-oriented drone/minimalist/pure tone sounds I've heard in a long time (maybe even since the Earth 2 release on Subpop, possibly the ultimate rock-as-drone album.) Uh, does this make any sense? Whatever...just soak it all up.
A M G says of K-Group's Corpus Hermeticum debut:
Minimal drone guitar music from the New Zealand underground, this obscure CD by K-Group is a dark exploration of subtle drones and electric hum in the vein of Gate and the Dead C, and is an off-shoot solo outing from Surface of the Earth guitarist Paul Toohey. Recorded in an abandoned factory, the ambient drones racked up by guitar and electronics create a textural resemblance to rock music stripped of all content. Leaving only a dust-trail of electricity and humming tones behind, the guitarist works up a cloud of slow-motion feedback, which brings to mind the Hafler Trio and Loren Mazzacane Conners.
7" is MINT to MINT- (note that lathe cut discs have a fair amount of surface noise from the nature of the King lathe cutting process)/Cover is MINT to MINT-.
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