[Rumori] Ward - CC Album

[David]

WARD RELEASE:

Title:				Ward – ‘It might be useful for us to know’ (Loca Records)
Release Date: 		17th April 2005
Taster video at: 
		http://www.locarecords.com/video/WARD-GeneratingCivilSociety.mov
License: 			Released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-alike

BACKGROUND

You don't approach a record as a closed book that you have to take or 
leave. There are always cuts that leave you cold. So you skip them. 
Other cuts you may listen to over and over again. They follow you. You 
find yourself humming them under your breath as you go about your daily 
business. 								Deleuze and Guatarri. A Thousand Plateaus.


This is not an easy album - it could not be otherwise.

All the tracks tell a story, from the shifting melody of Generating 
Civil Society, to the beautiful acoustic randomness of It Will Be 
Obvious To Everyone. Everything is turned upside down, inside out and 
stretched beyond expectation. But within each track lies a captivating 
beauty, a pearl waiting to be found by each of us, demonstrated most 
clearly by Armonica or Something - a track that rediscovers a forgotten 
musical instrument, the Armonica, invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 
1700s. In it’s time a controversial instrument that "Many [physicians 
thought] the sharp penetrating tone runs like a spark through the  
entire nervous system, forcibly shaking it up and causing nervous  
disorders”. Illness began to be blamed on the instrument,  as well as 
marital unhappiness, premature birth, and convulsions in  cats and 
dogs, it fell into disrepute. In some German states it was  banned by 
police decree, “on account of injury to one's health and for the sake 
of public order”. In many ways it is the perfect instrument for this 
album.

In this album, Ward are giving us music with which to describe and 
analyze the schizophrenic experience. Like the Armonica, they would 
like to see the album contribute to a new thinking, a new listening. 
But the new is easily misdiagnosed. Ward’s music is difficult to 
experience, but its novelty is necessary if we are to understand what 
is happening to us now and what we are doing to make happenings. When a 
world view dies, the terms that define and analyze it also die, even 
though they live on through inertia, custom, unthought. Ward’s music 
bears witness that the two musicians feel the death of the 
pre-postmodern world view; their ambition is to give us the music to 
begin to know what has been happening. In one sense, it has not been 
happening until we use music to say what has been happening. Each track 
is a plateau of experience - the album a thousand plateaus of variation 
that places variables of content and expression in continuity. Songs 
slide in relation to one another.  Themes are perpetually folding and 
unfolding. Instruments pass into one another, communicating. The album 
opens to chaos, threatening exhaustion or intrusion. It is kept from 
chaos by rhythm. A single intensity meant to be listened to, sometimes 
once, others more. Some tracks you will like and play again, some you 
will not.  But, Ward hope that you will find something that you can 
keep with you.



Track Listing

1. Akilium Trow
2. Generating Civil Society
3. They're all mental - Cotillion at Olympus Mons
4. Chunky Whole Nuts
5. We is confident that you is capable
6. Please do not walk on the lawn in the Front Quad
7. SuperMackerel Noodles
8. It will be obvious to everyone...
9. Activity from the Head of His
10. De Fernius
11. Armonica or Something
12. Perhaps I won't make a police dog
13. Glass Rotation Insult


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