Andrew Liles: CDs stolen/Nurse with Wound/Fovea Hex

Andrew Liles has unveiled the reason behind the belated arrival of “Black Out”, his latest contribution to the “Vortex Vault” series: After the CDs had experienced difficulties at British customs, the entire package was sent back to the USA and then... stolen! The issue has now been resolved according to Andrew Liles, which means that both “Black Out” and its follow.up “Black Panther” will be sent to subscibers simultaneously. “Black Out” features contributions by Freek and Miranda Kinkelaar and has a Dutch taste to it, with the Kinkelaars presenting Spoken Word passages, which either serve as a basis for the music or stand on their own amidst eclectically arranged works in between drones and colourful sound art. We gladly took the opportunity offered by Andrew Liles and Betal Lactam Ring Records to listen at a couple of samples on the label site and must say that the record sounds every bit as eccentric as promised – one of the tracks has Freek Kinkelaar reading poetry about a centipede, while others sees his and Miranda’s voice tumble over each other like those of madmen. “Black Panther”, meanwhile, is a collection of 22 tracks (simply titled “track 1” . “track 22”) for which Andrew Liles has invited over a couple of friends such as Joolie Wood, Clay Young, Wolfgang Weiss, Freida Abtan and Agnes Ladanyi. The music ranges from operatic arias to recorder solos and generally has a bit of a medieval and classical touch to it. And then there is the new Nurse with Wound album, of course, as well as first signs of a co-operation with Clodagh Simonds’ Fovea Hex.