Kerflooey, by Ian Nagoski

Kerflooey

by Ian Nagoski

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From a 58-minute performance recorded in real time at home in Baltimore, MD for Ben Green's "One Hour As..." program, broadcast July 25, 2003, London, UK.

Originally released an edition of 500 LPs and some CDRs by Ehse Records in 2008.
Remastered 2023

".... two multilayered, well-crafted sonic drone actions of subtle, beautiful, and haunting densities. Ian Nagoski takes the listener on a reworked journey through his previous three releases by mixing them and using them as source material for this new LP. The first three releases were originally recorded on a 4-track using sounds that were created from manipulated feedback and from vibrations from a metal instrument known as the Wild Wave, invented by Dan Conrad, brother of Tony Conrad. With his ears rooted in sound as movement, Nagoski produces erotic tonal hymns within the bleak and ghost-like recording shifting in an occult torrent between calm and disturbance. Although the record never rises to a noisy orgasmic crescendo, the orgasm is implied and is sustained throughout as in slow-motion. Dotting pulses of melodic hum frequent the transparent motion like hydrozoas scattering through light and darkness in flashes of psychical delight. Who couldn?t live forever within this magikal den of opiate-like dreamscapes that Nagoski has prepared? Thank you, Ian. Absolutely beautiful!! Highly recommended."
8/10 Foxy Digitalis

"The content is developed on a basic idea which consist to evoke the principle of personal ecstasy, the same principle we can detect in Pythagorian's idea of the harmony of the spheres and Marsilio Ficino's mystical conception on static vibes. Maybe that this album gets a more difficult approach, certainly much more intellectual but it always stimulate the sensual, physiological power of pure natural sound. The opening theme starts directly with a dense buzzing metallic drone slowly and almost non distinctly covered by subtle changes and long sonorous electronic waves. During this time, the listener must be concentrated on the continuous, expressive droning frequencies constantly in flux in order to access to the peaceful-cognitive meanings of sound. The second track is a more cloudy-claustrophobic electronic affair, admitting burgeoning low frequencies. The music progressively rises from the abyss with a luminous combination of electronic textures which renews with the sensual, fusional peak experience. This piece is also playing with speed, fading harmonies and sloc micro movements. This one clearly announces the revival of the magical-mystical potentialities of music (sounds as visible symbols in order to access to the invisible and to transform human consciousness) in a usual artistic universe overdominated by global values of entertainment and noisy entropic manifestations. This Kerflooey needs to be experienced in proprer conditions, this is not music for everyday life but for liminal spaces of human experience. Consequently this is not for all ears, the listener should be ritually prepared, acquiring mental disposals for new possibilities of listening."
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released July 25, 2003

dedicated to Jack R. & Laurie S.
Thanks to Dan Conrad, Twig Harper, and Andy Hayleck.
Layout by Jason Willett. Drawing by Tommy Rouse.

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