Richard Haughten - slow poke

Label : Boltfish
Catalogue number : BOLT013

Release date : 2005

 

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Second review from the Boltfish camp this week, this time we have Slow Poke from Richard Houghten.

Imagine a minute train made of gas and fluff, with underwater recordings of a double bass as fuel, well "Windshield" is that. Its a short track so remember to get your ticket.
"Birds and Bugs" takes an acoustic guitars wranglings and folds it slowly into a blackhole, extending the chords and extracting the tonal qualities that are hidden within. The effect is minimal and washes over the universe like a thin coating of clingfilm like material that begins to harden, and then sheds itself into the darkness like a flock of birds scared from the branches of a tree. Minimacontortions.

"Orange" is a pluck fest from the deep dark bowels of a suprise cave, full of plinking guitar whispers and ear pricking samples whilst "Flashlight" ups the volume and takes it back to the level with echoing strings coated with springy bacteria that cause a minor infection that you dont really mind catching.

Hissy sub storytelling soaked in light from below is what "Cup" is all about. Cascading samples from the four corners of Slow Poke's world come into effect as thudding bass walls come into play, flanked by small rotating armies that tend to accidentally fire on themselves, causing smacking beats to fly around in the background. It's one big chaos bomb running on half energy.


"Slow Poke" is an altered audio battery, which is brimming with acoustic rumblings. Not really my cup of tea, can of coke or toast with marmite on, but I can see people more into the acoustic janglings liking this. "Cup" was my favourite track on this one.

Always interesting to hear what the Boltfish label is churning out.


Sam


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