Swiss artist Dave Phillips is a member of Schimpfluch-Gruppe, the loose circle around Rudolf Eb.er and Joke Lanz devoted to psycho-physical tests and actions. Phillips describes his output as ritual protest music, with ecological concerns and an idea he calls humanimalism at its centre. The music on this new album by Phillips was created for 16-channel 'diffusion' in Lausanne and subsequently reduced to stereo for CD.

"Something I like about Phillips' music is the noisy aspect, but it's a different kind of noise. His noise doesn't deal with distortion, stomp boxes or synthesisers. Phillips uses field recordings, fire and animal sounds, highly amplified, and his voice, also in a more animalistic form, and with bangs on wood or metal. Sometimes, there are other sounds, such as a clock ticking - time running out.

There is something very primitive about this, like a ritual of a long time ago... It sounds like Etant Donnes' masterpiece "Blue", but extremer because of this amplification. Dave Phillips' music is a substantial charge for a cause that isn't good but essential if we want to survive and he's the shaman / priest to call us in action. We only need to listen, but as we know, we won't" (Vital Weekly).

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