Smooth Quality Excrement
Deep enthralling improvised sound collage works
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Screaming Blue Murder Screaming Blue Murder
Screaming until you're blue in the face about a murder!
We are P.locasta, Ure Thrall and the Fruitless Hand. We put out some pretty slick shite. We will curdle your intestines with our zounds.Band/artist history
'I have to say, this is a pure masterpiece of ambiental noise-structures and dark athmospheric soundscapes. Dark vibrating low-frequency tunes and clicking, swelling, climating or noisy sounds make this release unique, in fact I thought a long time, to whom I could compare this: No idea, except if you combine intelligent Noise-structures of M.S.B.R. or Merzbow with Dark Ambient of Lustmord, Amon or Yen Pox. But just at that time, when I think, ok this now is a great sound, allready a new one will infect brain and body or a semi-rhythmic part comes along. No doubt, this is how Dark Ambient should be like!'
['Bird and Truck Collision' Review from Baradalan]
'Good for isolated and thinkful moments. They slow down everything around you and add heaviness to everything about you. A CD that's definitely worth checking out from an interesting band for everybody into dark industrial or isolationism. A band from which I would like to hear more in the future.'
['Bird and Truck Collision' Review from TOTENTANZE webzine]
'Dredging electronic drones, low flying textures, spits and bursts of static, random processed beats, storming, swirling sounds burst out of the speakers from every which way, keeping the listener on their toes by creating a situation where you are never quite sure when any of these random elements will leap out. maybe, just maybe, this is what Yen Pox would sound like on bad acid trip!'
['Bird and Truck Collision' Review from Spectrum Experimental Magazine]
'Like the sonic equivalent of a vibrant Van Gogh, water colors that congeal into a swirling miasma at midnight, that run and bleed and BLEED, crimson spattered, scarred, dripping like mud in huge clods as the wind hums and the air itself suggests consciousness, though a consciousness drained and hallucinogenic, illusory contemplation derived from the ever-present drug haze (but what drugs could do THIS?!).'
['Bird and Truck Collision' Review from Sideline Magazine]
'Overall a dark and bleak atmosphere, ambience if you want, of moving music. Music that is drenched into sound effects, that slow but steadily moves. Sounds nice and well played. Boys that handle toys in a good way.'
['Bird and Truck Collision' Review from Frans De Waard, of Staalplaat]
'new material from this great psychedelic-space-dark-ambient-drone duo from the San Francisco / Bay Area. Very floating, but stirring spheres that are more threatening and intoxicating, maybe we should call this 'cosmic noise ambient'? RECOMMENDED !!'
['Destroy Our Planet, please vol. 1' review from the Drone records Newslist 2002]
'Eerie ambient. Four more tracks coming in oppressing surrealistic atmosphere. Deeply emotional space at its best, inner-mind expanding'
['Destroy Our Planet, please vol. 2' review from the Drone records Newslist 2002]
SMOOTH QUALITY EXCREMENT: our crappy little legacy When living together in Houston, The Fruitless hand and I were introduced to a neighbor of ours named Paul who not only had a fabulous recipe for Magick cookies, but also had been producing and releasing his own fascinating experimental works locally just as we had been doing! The Fruitless Hand had just completed the master for the Ure Thrall and the Fruitless Hand release and we were looking for a new frontier to explore. Thus, in 1997, the Fruitless Hand and Ure Thrall began an improvisational collaboration with Paul Locasta which resulted in SMOOTH QUALITY EXCREMENT.
The idea for this project was to see just how far we could go on improvisational skills alone (with the added influence of the magick cookies!), the goal being to specifically complement each others playing rather than obscure it. Paul was very skilled at this and we spent countless hours soaring the spaceways. There were times when I even forgot entirely where I was, my vision clouded by the spots before my eyes and the rumblings in my head. After 10 or so 5 hour sessions of this wonderfun over a period of 4 months, Paul was forced to depart the country for his New Zealand home, thus ending for the time being this collaboration and leaving us to sift through the endless morass of intense recorded madness all by our lonesomes.
Eventually The Fruitless Hand compiled and produced the first Smooth Quality Excrement release (Bird / Truck Collision) and released it on Influx in 2000 to very positive reviews. This encouraged me to take a shot at it myself and after much painstaking deliberation I released 2 follow up releases on CD-R entitled "Destroy our Planet, please" volumes 1 and 2 in 2001 which are currently available through Drone Records. This pretty much completed the assemblage of the best of the S.Q.E. sessions, with a few exceptions which we would love to see released on compilations if anyones interested.
SMOOTH QUALITY EXCREMENT CD RELEASES:
Bird / Truck Collision Influx Communication # 4 (1000 copies) released in 2000
(as Smooth Quality Instrument)
Destroy Our Planet, please vol.1 Audio Odditions # 7 CD-R release
Destroy Our Planet, please vol.2 Audio Odditions # 8 CD-R releaseHave you performed in front of an audience?Yes we have but that shite gets old
Your musical influences
Christoph Heeman, HNAS, Ultra,What equipment do you use?
the toilet and a plungerAnything else?
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San Francisco,
USA
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Comments (1)
I've played some stuff of yours on my overnight radio show. You can find my playlists and shows at http://www.thefalsegods.com if you want to check it out. It airs at CFMU in Hamilton (Canada), and I'm trying to syndicate it through radio4all.net.
