Phet Phet Phet - ShimmerShimmers tones are unexpected, the combinations of instruments far off the beaten trails of familiar genres. Its not quite jazz, not quite neoclassical, not quite soul, but something all its own. Saxophone, clarinet, glockenspiel, cello, pedal steel, synths, guitar & human voice merge in ethereal counterpoints that nod to chamber music, while the rhythm section drives the whole thing forward with an uncanny propulsion that feels cool, self possessed &

the music of Oneida is celebrated for its mix of abstract

when a teenager

Alexander Tucker

as staggering as any feedback-addled punk then being recorded at Southern Studios

It’s moments like these where BODEGA most exemplifies their self-professed motto that “the best critique is self critique

“Their practices seemed interminable at first

2011 pressing

by which time the group was long disbanded

and Ashra: a distinctive beat instantly recognizable to those in the know

Barry Reynolds

apocalyptic (noise) improvisations (a sound later termed industrial)

has the character of something you would expect to be rather more expensive