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CINDYTALK - silver shoals of light 10"
This is the third release in the art series singles of the nice bluesanct label, of which panataleimons 7" under the water is also part. they ask an artist to compose a song, which is pressed in a ltd edition on vinyl. on the backof the record, an artwork by a different artist is printed.

the third part in the series was composed by the obscure but influential cindytalk. this project of the androgeneous scot Gordon Sharps has been releasing records sporadicly since 1983. they vary between chaotic and emotion Sturm und Drang to poetic, filmic soundscapes, or pastoral neofolk with a noisy edge. apart from that, gordon sharp is best known from his work on this mortal coils debut single 16 days/gathering dust and the following album 'it'll end in tears'.

this mortal coil was generally quite accessible, cindytalk rarely is. this 10" is once again a proof of their stubbornness. during 5 and a half minutes, gordon sharp and matt kinnison lead us through a dark soundscap, mixed with sharps semi-muttering vocals, to move away to cindytalks more noisy side. (fortunately) they'll never learn.

this song wouldnt have been out of place on the more acoustic part of 'in this world', from the soundtrack 'the wind is strong' of the movie 'eclips'. for whom is not able of getting his hands on one of the just 500 copies of this trinket, there's still hope: bluesanct suggested that the band is writing new material. to celebrate the release, cindytalk did ashow for the first time since... 1994 (?). who books the band a show in belgium?

DREKKA - Extractioning CD
Drekka is the project of buesanct-shief maichael anderson. Drekka is actually giving a good image of what the label stands for: a colourful mix of uncompromising, non-commercial ways of working around the word 'song'. so he's not easy to pin down to one genre. an inspired music-journalist once described it as 'nurse with wound producing leonard cohen'. i woulnt go that far - both of them are sacred to me - but you could call bluesanct, and as a result thereof drekka, at least remarkable.

the original intention of drekka is to catch the thoughts and dreams of michael andser as much as possible, in a musicla way. you could call it the translation of what's happening inside his head. the result sounds kind of lo-fi, which is sometimes intreguing - the first 3 songs and psalm 99 - but sometimes also irritates. possibilities, for example, is a too cheap blueprint of a melody of current 93's Soft Black Stars. the cover of cat powers What would the community think? is a lot better then. Color red is also a better succeeded song, with its hints to the works of bo Hansson (a swedish keyboard-player from the psychedelic 60s) on distortion, layered on top of a familiar rythm which i just can't seem to remember where iknow it from. As a more probable inspirationwe have to name coil, current 93 and flying saucer attack.

Drekka and bluesanct did the effort to re-release this old tape from 1998. you should do the effort to remove the weeds from this 35 minutes long record.