Troglodytes Troglodytes, by Vicious Circus

Troglodytes Troglodytes

by Vicious Circus

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1.	Tigerhorse 03:18	buy track
2.	The Toast of Dalston 03:42	buy track
3.	Numbers Properly Considered 00:34	buy track
4.	That Patronising Smile 02:12	buy track
5.	#ME 01:26	buy track
6.	A Utopia That Is Switzerland 00:35	buy track
7.	Seduction And Disappointment 04:44	buy track
8.	Shaved Bikinus 03:56	buy track
9.	Every Living Hour 00:53	buy track
10.	One Lonely Glove 09:44	buy track
11.	Dead Pixel 01:01	buy track
12.	Roughly 3’33” Or Thereabouts 03:33	buy track
13.	Beard Olympics 04:32	buy track
14.	Parents Were Cousins 03:00	buy track
15.	This is Fluxus 01:45	buy track
16.	MYDEATHBYHASHTAG 03:00	buy track
17.	Lady Kafka 02:50	buy track
18.	Lorenzo’s Lament 05:07	buy track
19.	Troglodytes Troglodytes 02:19	buy track
20.	Spinal Irritation 03:16	buy track

about

This could be avant-garde sideshow music. Dave Maric and Elo Masing, the core of Vicious Circus, often seem to perform together like crazed dicephalus twins in this series of short pieces that could perhaps be thought of as the disowned siblings of free improvisation, contemporary concert music, and sci-fi soundtracks.

Troglodytes Troglodytes is rigorous in its pursuit of a highly idiosyncratic aesthetic. But, ever the musical magpies Dave and Elo fill each track with irresistibly brightly lit and curious objects, making this album as accessible as it is inscrutable, as centripetal as it is fugal (this is not a vicious circle).

Drawing together a dizzying range of sounds and palettes from Neanderthal grime, to high-speed high-tech poetry settings Troglodytes Troglodytes is a rare thing indeed; at once strange, beautiful, unsettling, rewarding....

“It’s the [musical] sideshow that I would love to see live...”

Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3

credits

released July 26, 2014

Elo Masing : violin, cello, electric guitar and whistle
Dave Maric : The daveOtron

with special guests:
David Turay : alto saxophone (Tracks 04, 12, 18)
Matthew Lee Knowles : voice (Tracks 03, 09, 15)

All tracks (improvised) by Elo Masing and Dave Maric
apart from:
Tracks 04, 12, 18 (Elo Masing, Dave Maric, David Turay)
All spoken text by Matthew Lee Knowles.

Recorded in London June 2013, September 2013 and February 2014 at:
Royal Academy of Music (engineer : Roderick Buchanan-Dunlop)
SAE Institute (engineers : Boris Nazarov and Ray Hage)
and Cotesbach Rd, E5. (engineer : Dave Maric)

Edited and mixed by Dave Maric

Produced by Vicious Circus

Original cover illustration by the Theatre of Dolls (www.theatreofdolls.com)

Thanks to:

David Turay
Matthew Lee Knowles
Roderick Buchanan-Dunlop
Boris Nazarov
Ray Hage
Cam Deas
Leo Abrahams
Raisa Veikkola
Frida Alvinzi
Phil Brunner
Lumiere

Official website - tiny.cc/vicious

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