peter kolovos - new bodies (12inch 180gram lp +download)

Tracks:
Side A - 1. Slick Knees 2. Dry Lips
Side B - 3. Early Light

Music, Production, Design: Peter Kolovos
Mastering: Rashad Becker
Photography: Joyce Campbell

Full Color Heavy Tip-On Cover / 180 Gram Vinyl Edition of 500
Each LP comes with a Digital Download Code

Sound Samples, Etc - myspace.com/peterkolovos
From Los Angeles, also of Open City – first full length-- single takes, live--
Intensely physical and abstract music that constantly, unpredictably shifts and evolves. Impulse, memory and intent, laid bare in real time.
Post-melody, post-groove SOUND. Concrete, brutal, yes fun-----

"Peter Kolovos, guitarist in Los Angeles trio Open City, presents here three tracks of electric guitar improvisations. Each features successively recorded left- and right-channel guitars, in which the overdub responds asynchronously to the original. While Open City explored the electroacoustic interplay afforded by the two-guitar and drums line-up, in New Bodies, his first solo release, Kolovos lets rip with all the skronk and blurt he's been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments.

His sound vocabulary is very broad, and his control of texture and timing is masterful. Using equalisation, reverb, envelope shaping and volume control... He rapidly opens and closes the volume window on a dizzying series of extended guitar techniques, creating the inescapable impression of Derek Bailey covering The Residents' Duck Stab. If that won't sell records, I don't know what will.

This electrifying effect is enhanced by the crisp digital recording and the superb Dubplates and Mastering pressing job - every clang and buzz is right up in your grill. Released on Kolovos's own imprint, the packaging continues the good work. The cover features a magnificent photograph of the guitarist taken by Joyce Campbell using the mid-19th century tin type process, which requires a sitting of over three minutes. The resulting image is as physically 'time based' as the recording it encloses, and has the distinctive look of a Victorian death mask - no 'posing' or even facial expression is possible. In this regard the cover is an exact metaphor of the recording - what you perceive is exactly what you get."

- Bruce Russell, The Wire August 2009

"Was really excited to see the Thin Wrist label back in action, even more so when I saw that Bruce Russell of The Dead C was touting this solo side from the guitarist from Open City and label boss Peter Kolovos as his album of 2009. This is an extremely fucked-up guitar side, at points it almost feels as if he’s either playing through some extremely gated F/X, making stabs at a volume pedal or editing his playing so precisely as to punch spilt second holes between one movement and then the next. The guitar is overdriven to the point of almost obliterating any notion of single notes but with a shot of delay that gives it a nice wobbly interstellar edge. The playing itself is massively a-formal, with the dexterity of Derek Bailey directed more towards Mars-style tonal confusion than usurped jazz modes, occasionally pushing it all the way into the kind of black-out feedback zones of Keiji Haino. But most of all it shares common ground with Donald Miller’s A Little Treatise On Morals, that same rigorous disassembling of guitar language and ferocious commitment to a barbarous modernism. Comes in very heavy sleeves on very heavy vinyl with a digital download coupon, mastered by Rashad Becker."

-David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue U.K. January 2010

"Everything changes (or doesn't) at exactly the right time. With such abrupt cuts from sound to sound, a lesser man could end up with a whiff of "30 genres in 29 seconds" but here each new sound relates so well to what just came before it, in a gracefully aggressive way."