Mladinski klub Nade Zagar

MKNZ, Friday, 31.03.2000

OLD TIME RELIJUN (USA)

Celebrate Millenial Hysteria with the apocalyptic rampage that is Old Time Relijun`s Uterus And Fire (klp,97), a blistering paean to the eclipse of the Piscean Age.

Confused garage dub meets psycho hillbilly twang on the free jazz fuck train to noisy gospel swamp-raga inferno. Think ultra-raw blackwoods Contortions guzzling moonshine, tossing rattlesnakes, you`ve almost got it.

Beefheart/Jad Fair protege and bad ass preachers`s son Arrington de Dionyso incants madly in voices ranging from gutteral field holler to deranged and sweatty crybaby falsetto. The primitive pounding punch and pounce of drummer Phil Elvrum (of D+ and Microphones fame) is more akin to elephants or thunder than anything remotely proto-musical. Spooky guitar drones and the shaky middle ground between vioces and drums, tamed only slightly by the sultry upright bass of original band member Aaron Hartman (also of icu) and the occasional Ayler-esque bass clarinet played by Mr. Dionyso himself.

Sounding as though recorded miles beneath the earth, it was Olympia`s Dub Narcotic Studios that bore the beats of the bastard beast Uterus And Fire, captured on tape entirely by bandmember and boy genius Elvrum.

Full of eerie byblical floods and lusts, the concise visions of sex and doom in de Dionyso`s dada lyrics fall nothing short of a Manifesto for Alchemical Revolution. With its Dionysian deluge of birth and rot, the dissonant hungry swagger of Old Time Relijun`s Uterus And Fire puts toilet tissue indie rock incest through the paper shredder.

Song titles: dagger, archaeopteryx elaw, giant boat, burning head, office building, telephone call, jail, casino, johnny appleseed, hot oven, broken water.

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