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<label id="erstwhile" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/boutique/erstwhile/">
  <name>Erstwhile Records</name>
  <shortname>Erstwhile</shortname>
  <recording id="erstwhile_006" href="http://www.actuellecd.com/en/cat/erstwhile_006/">
    <artist>Kevin Drumm, Martin T&#233;treault</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/006_ERSTWHILE.gif" />
    <title>Particles and Smears</title>
    <catno>ERSTWHILE 006</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Chicago-based Kevin Drumm (guitar, electronics) and Montr&#233;al-based Martin
    T&#233;treault (turntables) traveled in separate musical circles, each unaware of the
    other&#8217;s work, until a Chicago-based organization, Lampo, booked T&#233;treault for a
    concert with Drumm and the ubiquitous Jim O&#8217;Rourke in September of 1999. While
    T&#233;treault was in Chicago, he and Drumm spent some time in the studio, and this CD contains
    the results, as recorded by TV Pow&#8217;s Todd Carter. Drumm, best known for his two superb
    solo records on Perdition Plastics, and T&#233;treault, best known for his collaborative series
    of discs on Ambiances Magnetiques with the likes of Otomo Yoshihide and Ikue Mori, meld their
    techniques seamlessly to form a thoroughly integrated record. While both musicians are more
    than capable of playing solo sets filled with compelling ideas from beginning to end, here both
    seem to make a conscious effort to subsume their identities in order to create a greater work.
    &#8220;The often brittle, overwhelmingly tactile sounds which Drumm and T&#233;treault produce
    are so finely intertwined it&#8218;s an act of futility to guess whose thwacks, crackles, pops,
    hums, and squeaks are whose. The duo&#8218;s enjoyment practically oozes from their savvy
    interactions, as they rigorously reach deeper and deeper into themselves and their instruments
    to find new noises. But even as they forage, their sense of purpose is never lost. This is free
    improvisation of the highest level; stunning proof of imagination transcending scrap-heap
    technique.&#8221; -Peter Margasak</description>
  </recording>
</label>
