Brooming Mephitic Blast (CD-R)
by Hototogisu
Co-released by Soopa and Esquilo Records as the first volume of the "Live Series" collaboration, "Brooming Mephitic Blast" documents seminal psychedelic noise band Hototogisu's brain-melting show in Porto, on February 26, 2005.
This concert has since long attained legendary status, much due to the unthinkable volume generated onstage, which prompted the sound technician to turn off the P.A., with no perceptible changes in the sound pressure experienced by the audience, and also by its finale, with Hototogisu's Marcia Bassett and Matthew Bower leaving their sonic arsenal playing by itself and sitting in the front row among the audience, also becoming spectators to the entity they had invoked.
Press articles
Hototogisu - "Brooming Mephitic Blast"
"Matthew Bower and Marcia Bassett channel gigantic chasms of stratospheric feedback from the middle of a pentagram of FX pedals, generating a devastating black hole blues. Highly recommended."
volcanictongue (2006) - www.volcanictongue.co.uk
Hototogisu - "Brooming Mephitic Blast"
"An unforgettable show for all who were there, its memory lasting well after the ring in the audience's ears had faded (which "only" took a couple of days). Besides the unbelievable sound entity that they created, like Dr. Frankenstein with a big P.A., one of the strongest impressions was, in the set's closing minutes, Marcia and Matthew abandoning the stage and the music to its own devices, and sitting calmly in the front row, just listening and staring at the sound. Holy."
DJBeatnik a.k.a. The Banshee (2006) <<Random-Access-Memories>>
