Kabuki, by Longstone

Kabuki

by Longstone

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Original pressing with full colour booklet

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1.	Kabuki part one 02:23	buy track
2.	Kabuki part two 09:04	buy track
3.	Kabuki part three 05:57	buy track
4.	Kabuki part five 08:22	buy track
5.	Kabuki part six 07:36	buy track

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Originally released on Ochre records 2008

REVIEWS of the original release:

UNCUT 2008
"Mike Cross and Mike Ward's sixth album of sparse, experimental electronica includes a sleeve credit for "percussion, shelf brackets, household gadgets", which is a handy pointer for what to expect from the six tracks here. Glitchy beats build and build, with the addition of improvised guitar, woodwind (courtesy of the Guillemots' Chris Cundy) and the aforementioned shelf brackets into soundscapes that don't sound anywhere near as self-indulgent as they perhaps should. It works best on the more beat-driven tracks such as "Kabuki Part Two" and "Kabuki Part Four" which have a sense of propulsiveness that recalls Neu! at their finest"

THE WIRE 2008
"Over 12 years, six albums and a plethora of side projects, Longstone have evolved into a unique proposition. The duo of Mike Ward and Mike Cross have repeatedly opened their compositional process up to the influences of collaborators, which means that musicians as diverse as Will Sergeant, Pete Kember and Fyfe Dangerfield have had impact on their sound. On Kabuki, they've practically transformed themselves into a group. The record has its genesis in 2008's live work, and the basic tracks were recorded as a six piece ensemble in real time. Chris Cundy's plaintive saxaphones and Steve Moody's progressive guitars are particularly striking on the first listen, but Stuart Wilding's intricate percussion playing - nimbly woven around the programmed rhythms - and Kev Fox's outlandish splashes of electronic colour contribute just as much to the overall effect. The result is a true hybrid, a questioning, indefinable music propelled through reverberant spaces by staccato rhythms and slashes of artful noise."

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released May 13, 2008

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Longstone UK

Longstone are an experimental, electronic music collective formed in 1996 in Cheltenham, England, coalescing around the core duo of Mike Ward and Mike Cross.

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