RST lathe 8” NZ Dead C Birchville Cat Motel Sonic Youth
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Oct 3, 2008
Sold Date
Sep 26, 2008
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Description
RST- Voltage/Garden lathe cut 8" (Blue Silver Records) red sleeve
RST comes with a strong CV, with full length releases on Bruce Russell of The Dead C's Corpus Hermeticum, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth's Ecstatic Peace and Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel's Celebrate Psi Phenomenon imprint and a brand new release on Last Visible Dog. RST is Andrew Moon, former owner of Imperial Recordings and former drummer for David Mitchell's Flying Nun band Goblin Mix.Early on RST issued a few lathe cuts in the early to mid 1990's and this 8" EP is one of those lathe discs.
Release info from Corpus Hermeticum for Warm Planes said:
Guaranteed to pin your head to the floor with calm, carefully abraded and composed blocks of unrelenting noise. Nothing here is accidental, every sound event has a purpose and the result is a festival of physically impacting soundworks in the now classic NZ style. Andrew Moon is RST, a solo sound exploration project he launched on the unsuspecting world via the lathe cut LP Event Horizon in 1994. This LP, like the nearly contemporaneous Surface of the Earth double LP, marked the real beginnings of something new in the NZ noise scene, until then pretty fully occupied by offshoots of the Dead C and their close relatives. Andrew's past was as a drummer in various post punk NZ combos, but RST represented a considerable broadening of his sonic palette, using guitars, electronics and recording processes to weld slabs of sound into very slow moving and all-enveloping sonic environments. He subsequently featured on Hcorp's genre defining compilation Le Jazz Non, banged out a few select lathe cut rarities and put out his first CD, R136a, on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace imprint. The key to RST's development was a spell spent in London in the early 90's, getting to grips with non-linear music and improvised stratagems for sound making. Once sound was freed to be itself, there was no looking back for Mr Moon. He rapidly came to master the techniques of painting with sound, enabling himself to create sound worlds that hang suspended in the ear of the beholder, adrift from points of reference, where tones and isolated rhythm events turn slowly, casting light in interweaving circles around the inside of your brain. The pieces on this new album range from carefully wrought filigrees of sound sparkling in mid-air to slow moving bulldozers of low end noise that grind across the aural foreground, obliterating everything in their path. What links them together is the total dedication and attention to detail that accompanies their generation and recording, as with label compatriot K Group, no sound is just allowed to be there, every noise is sculpted and carefully placed for maximum aesthetic effect on the listener. Once more, confounding the armchair cynics who claim it is a dead cypher in a universe devoid of meaning, in RST's hands the electric guitar is reclaimed and made to do new work, uplifting the spirit and splitting the mind open to reveal yet new interior universes of signification. RST's Warm Planes are like thermal pools for the mind, from which the listener emerges revived and renewed. Dip in.
Bruce Russell said of Axes:
"While clearly responding to the same imperatives as the nearly-contemporary Surface of the Earth, his sound effectively came out of nowhere. Indeed, at that point, one of the few things I'd heard operating in the same area was Earth itself. While now the plague of black metallers and second-rate 'drone-istas' have made this seem like a starting-point obvious to the point of being passé, 12 years ago that was far from true. So it's easy now to listen to the new rst album, his third in the last decade after releases on Ecstatic Peace! and Corpus Hermeticum, and think 'I've heard that before.' But in fact, all you've heard is everyone who copped this sh-t from the originators. This immaculate blend of scrubbed and polished metallic tones, layered and sculpted like automotive bodywork of the first order, is in fact the real deal. rst had this first, and remains best at doing it, because he's kept his head down, kept off bad drugs, and continued to refine his work in relative obscurity -- not caring whether or not you know about it. It's hard not to lose yourself in this because for me it sounds like the operation of the cosmos, amplified to audibility. This is electric guitar sound with all the extraneous 'music' stripped out. Electricity in action: natural like electro-magnetism, and devotional like the wind from the sun."
Last Visible Dog says of the new RST album: This album is from a different time and place. Found myself thinking of Eno's 'soundtracks' album along with Tangerine Dream's Zeit. Accomplishes some kind of weird, lonely, other-worldliness that I only associate with a tiny minority of artists.
A M G says of RST's Corpus Hermeticum album, Warm Planes:... Sculpting droning sheets of sound via processed electric guitar, the dark ambient feel of this recording recalls the work of Main and Flying Saucer Attack. Computer processing is used to edit and assemble materials, with every noise given a place in an elaborate composition, which considerably defies the dogmatic improvisation aesthetic of the Corpus Hermeticum label. With guitar noise as the canvas, RST paints brooding minimalist sound pictures. A highly developed record of courageous experimentation.
8" is MINT-/Cover is VG+ (light wear). (please note that lathe cut records are individually cut on a purpose built lathe in New Zealand by Peter King, the records are not pressed records and are on poly carbonite plastic and not vinyl, they inevitibly have some surface noise as a result of this and do not sound as crisp as a well mastered record)
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