DVD C: DEATH IMPROV
Long overdue and much anticipated – here it comes, here it comes, the ninteenth release from sonic Borg queen, her amazingness Kaffe Matthews.
DVD 983 minutes worth plus bonus video tour of Kaffe’s crib (18+ only). Special offer €1,752

Delayed five years due to a flat tyre and a complete re-think as her violin floated off up the Rhine in a tulle-lined little oak coffin. Seeing as everyone else has given up using instruments and taken up sound processing with laptops, Kaffe decides to make a play for the field and in the event, wrests the laptop crown from the great Austrian pretenders. Revamped and revitalized, working in ways like you’ve never heard like in your life like, Kaffe samples the sound of air circulating in an old lead acid battery factory and recontextualises it for a sleeping audience using 351 speakers sewn into their sleeping bags. The commitment is evident, the effect is obvious. The homologous chips simply must fall at some point – and bring everything clashing down when they do.
‘Kaffe Matthews might well be the only living improviser capable of combining the glitz of Alexis Bittar and the conflated catwalk cataclysm of Proenza Schouler with the dire dishwater-dull dead end dirge of the laptop paradigm. A significant departure’ – Ed Baxter, Music Monthly
FEATURING:
Who stole a whole bowl of my chopped nuts? – Crazy Horse Club, Singapore.
Inadequate rider – 115th LMC festival, London, UK
Prosecco Fountain – The Vice Rock Club, Swansea
The Bidet that exploded and ate half of Paris – White Lady, Tokyo.