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Fuchs & Beckett
ANGELGRINDER

Single DE 2014 on LiTho label
Electronic, Jazz, Rock and Classical (Ambient)

The VHS edition of ANGELGRINDER is 180 minutes in length and limited to 15 copies. Think allong the lines of those godawful fireplace DVDs, only in good. A 3 hour nonstop audio visual psychedelic ambient workout on mechanically degradable magnetic vhs tape. A few years ago I was attempting to strip the paint off of a cheap, cherry red Epiphone SG and annoyed by the slow progress, I decided to see if an angle grinder would speed things up. It did. So much so in fact, that I very quickly had a big dent in the neck of the SG. This gave birth to the idea that it may be fun to play / destroy a guitar using an angle grinder, so I asked Giant Fox if he would be up for collaborating. We wanted to keep things as cheap as possible (ie. well under €50) so I built a bariton lap steel guitar out of a woodworm ridden plank and bits and bobs found in the cellar. The guitar was open tuned and the sound, which afterwards was filtered and processed slightly to bring out the harmonic content, recorded via the pick up only. The resulting 180 minute film is made up of multiple 12 minute loops which unnoticingly pulsate backwards and forwards, blurring beggining and end and soundtracked by the subdued drone of the angle grinder grinding away at the wood and metal of the lap steel in real time. Michael Beckett, 2014 released April 1, 2014 image : jan fuchs sound : michael beckett place : hillentrup, germany date : 11/09/2013 watch the movie here : youtu.be/kD8Wgy4uHCI https://lithomusik.bandcamp.com/album/angelgrinder http://lithomusik.org/

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