horaflora - craterellus cornucopioides (12inch vinyl lp)

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Horaflora is the moniker of Bay Area resident Raub Roy and "Craterellus Cornucopioides" represents his most seminal work to date. A heavy dose of electronic treachery awaits as "Horn of Plenty" cracks open your ears. Skewed waves flash out and richochet off every surface in the room like little sonic bullets just waiting to load you up with shrapnel. Roy's like a puppet master, wielding bleeps and squirts as his arsenal, bending them into unexpected shapes. Every crackle, every turn is the right one. It's an awesome exercise in trashcan electronics. The flip, "Trumpet of Death," gets even more medieval. Horn squalls are burnt into charred deliciousness. While oscillating squelches are lined up to infinity, endless loops recoil, destroying each other and leaving the ground littered with caustic tonal debris. If these are the deaththroes, color me fucking excited. Recommended. - Brad Rose, Experimedia

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True EAI from veteran Bay Area wizard Raub Roy, with one caveat: fun. Electroacoustic blurps and squirts spew surprisingly and academically, yet are mixed not with dead eyes and cardigans but a hoodie made of bark resting above the collarbone, several inches below a grin. This is textural music for meditative exploration--not for distant worlds or circuitry, but to supplement the ferns growing along a cabin fence and the microscopic worlds those ferns house. Nature can be evil too, but if it kills you it will do so with a Cheshire Catted smile. Features two sidelong pieces, each complemented by Ildiko's cover photograph.