Deserted Village

Eachtra in Riddlers

Amygdala

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The sixth release from Deserted Village is an unedited recording of the first meeting of a truly odd and exciting line-up: Dave Carroll (The Wormholes) on percussion, Fergus Cullen (Papercop) on guitar, Gavin Prior (Murmansk) on percussion and electronics and Paul Roe (Concorde Ensemble) on Bass clarinet. This unplanned hour of improv arose from two overlapping sessions in the Deserted Studio and was an enjoyable departure for everyone involved. It is an extremely fluid set with frenetic grooves twisting and turning before dissolving back into sonic sludge.

Paul Roe draws on his contemporary music background, exploiting a wealth of extended technique. His humming and clicking blends in and out of whatever noise or groove comes his way. He is met half-way by the non-academic musicians in a stew, stranger than the sum of its parts.
This was unleashed at a gig in Lazybird (where else?) which rocks harder than the as you can hear from the mp3 extract. The Amygdala album is now on sale in Lazybird every sunday as well as from us.

After just one CD-R release, Amygdala are already generating a media frenzy........

"Fans of slow, wandering drone clatter and abrasive noise masquerading as free jazz, this one is for you!"
- Lee Jackson, The Broken Face

"Derek Bailey on poppers" - Q Magazine

"Absolutely thrilling; like Slayer and Kajagoogoo locking horns at a Bar mitzvah"
- Joe Duffy

"Utterly Visceral, like a drunken brawl between Borbetomagus and Motley Crue in an abattoir"
- The Face

"Think Bez from the Happy Mondays administering crack to a menstruating Miles with one hand and a hand shandy to a coked-up Coltrane with the other"
- Mojo

"These Bitches brew up a storm in my D-Cup" - Jazz Times

"Such an agitated racket can only be likened to Sonny Sharrock welding a donkey to justly-intoned harpsichord with a breathless Albert Ayler skronking encouragement" - The Wire

"Syd Barret on acid" - Hot Press