a collection of curses
by dave phillips
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Albumdivergent and transgressive oddities, rarities and unreleased psycho sensory soundbites, recorded between 1994 and 2004, 31 tracks just under 80 minutes.
mastered by Tom Smith.
Digipack featuring outright collage-artwork by Jürgen Eckloff.
released by Blossoming Noise.
REVIEW courtesy of Spency Grady/The Wire (March 2007):
Dave Phillips is an integral cog in Switzerland's Schimpfluch collective, a group dedicated to continuing the extremist traditions and aesthetics of the Viennese Actionists who rose to prominence during the 1960's. The word Schimpfluch translates as 'abuse' in German, and there is undoubtedly a violent current worming its way through this collection of abstracts and outbursts which reach across the last decade of Phillips's career. A Collection Of Curses is crammed full of phlegmatic gurgles, porcine grunts and the sounds of numerous intimate bodily functions - celebrations of animal nature, both theirs and ours. These are punctuated by eviscerating shards of noise and banshee screams that are equal to anything issued recently by Wolf Eyes and their ilk. The results are often unsettling, putting the spooks up anyone who listens too intently. It is the presence of the organic suffocating amidst the synthetic wreckage that truly makes the skin crawl.
But it is on the homeward stretch, with “Fog Scrub” and the “Hermeneutics” series, that the collection really hits its stride. Sourced from tracks by his old hardcore group, Fear Of God, Phillips teases and morphs the material into something even more brutal, creating the kind of blitzkrieg that brings to mind Bay Area train wreckers like Spazz, No Comment and San Diego's almighty Crossed Out.
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cute (edit)
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svinja
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gibbons
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malääng
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incinerate the stagnant
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pktpl
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subangft
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complainer
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why hide?
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züri
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telephone
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(swissotic)
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ass-scent
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hole/holy
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fog scrub
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hermeneutics 4
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hermeneutics 18
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hermeneutics 15
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hermeneutics 55
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hermeneutics 47
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hermeneutics 7
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hermeneutics 34
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hermeneutics 35
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about
2005. dp for schimpfluch commune int.
cover collage by jürgen eckloff. tray photo by thala linder. layout at tochnit aleph. masteried by tom smith.
THANK YOU
reto mäder, alex alexeev, dmitry vasilyev, dennis danchenko, eric boros, doris tomasoni, allon kaye, erik hoffman, daniel löwenbrück, rashad becker, michael barthel, robert batchas, joachim nordwall, joke lanz, rudolf eb.er, dylan nyoukis, thala linder, erich keller, osi oswald, reto kühne, tom smith, graham moore, gerard klauder, the phillips family, pro helvetia.
this album is dedicated in loving memory to christoph ’stöff’ gächter who passed away on 19th july 2005.
originally released on CD by blossoming noise, atlanta.
cover collage by jürgen eckloff. tray photo by thala linder. layout at tochnit aleph. masteried by tom smith.
THANK YOU
reto mäder, alex alexeev, dmitry vasilyev, dennis danchenko, eric boros, doris tomasoni, allon kaye, erik hoffman, daniel löwenbrück, rashad becker, michael barthel, robert batchas, joachim nordwall, joke lanz, rudolf eb.er, dylan nyoukis, thala linder, erich keller, osi oswald, reto kühne, tom smith, graham moore, gerard klauder, the phillips family, pro helvetia.
this album is dedicated in loving memory to christoph ’stöff’ gächter who passed away on 19th july 2005.
originally released on CD by blossoming noise, atlanta.
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released January 1, 2006
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dave phillips Zürich, Switzerland
PHYSICAL SHOP CLOSED TIL AUGUST ‘23.
sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of
metaphysics, a conscience, a consciousness. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life, to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of civilisation.
ritual protest music, to curse homo sapiens out of its infancy.
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