Press release 1 June 2006
Discus 28CD
Artist: Beck / Drenching / Pleasure
Title: A Low Carbonation
The Album: A Low Carbonation immerses you in the interface between plumbing
and low tech - this sound of music is more about construction of new forms
than Mary Poppins.
Bricks have been made at least since 4004 BC; bassoons since Roman times;
Dictaphones? There's no reason why anachronisms should sound like this.
There's every reason for giving the subliminal its head and enjoying the
differential equations of office, suction and percussion.
9 tracks, 48 minutes of intrigue and invention. The odd numbered tracks are
the trio in studio in the Flat of Angles, Levenshulme, Manchester, and one
concert at Over The Top, Sheffield (track 9). The even numbered tracks give
another side of Pleasure.
The Beck/Drenching/Pleasure press spoxperson issued the following statement:
"They specialise in the manufacture of rotating provisional structures.
Bits fall off, bits drive forward, bits shrink back in myriad states of unity
and disassemblage. Amid the interrogative inputs of toddlers and the howls
of audience, A Low Carbonation, their second album, inks in some unlikely
frescos on the imitation security fences which hedge the perimeter of
musical life. Pleasure's solo flute interpolations offer a welcome periscopic
view into the ambrosial middle distance."
(Spox has since left to be right on).
About the Trio: Drenching and Pleasure formed a partnership 5 years ago of
unlikely instruments and mutual miscellaneous bodily functions. In improvised
music they are best known for their work with Derek Bailey on the Incus
release, Limescale. Drenching is also a poet, and Pleasure a composer. Beck
began to work with them in 2000, producing one previous album
"Beck/Drenching/Pleasure Live at HOTS-OD" (released on Fenland Hi-Brow
Recordings and reviewed The Wire 214 and 217). The Trio has performed
in various settings in London and elsewhere in England.