13 Ono Aragon

Second in the series is Louis Aragon By Andrew Hargreaves Louis Aragon
Limited To 30 copies only (with around 5 extra copies for promotion purposes)
Andrew is one half of 'the boats' friends with ikey and also helps to run lacies records with alice clarke here is the boats myspace
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Boomkat Wrote :
Named after the French poet and novelist, this 3" CD by Andrew Hargreaves of The Boats is one in a series of Ono releases to focus on the key figures of the Surrealist movement. This disc takes recordings of readings from Aragon's text and sets them into their own sound world, filled with both acoustic and electronic elements, but most of all, firmly characterised by certain hallmarks that instantly bring to mind Hargreaves' main strand of work for Moteer. The tone and rhythm of the readings is matched brilliantly by these backdrops, and it's often hard to work out where the original analogue crackle of the speech recordings ends and the digital interference begins. Opening with a passage of simply plucked acoustic guitar, this twenty minute EP embarks upon an incredibly condensed narrative of homespun electroacoustics and new musical contexts for the text, and to his great credit, Hargreaves follows the variation in the speaker's voice in an incredibly faithful and detailed fashion, resulting in a release that feels like a really special piece of work, a notion consolidated by the lovely handmade packaging and the incredibly limited edition (just 30 copies in total). Get one while you can...