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Supertoque -
Lemtat Unit
C32
Side A
Side B
bandcamp
Kelly Churko - electric guitar, electronics
Cal Lyall - electric guitar, electronics
Tim Olive - magnetic pickups, electronics
Recorded by Kelly Churko at Ochiai Soup (Tokyo) on Oct. 14, 2011
Mixed by Kelly Churko and Cal Lyall
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Cover image by Vera Olive and TO
Cover design by Cal Lyall |
Reviews:
(Vital Weekly) Churko passed away in 2014, and he was from Canada, a guitarist who moved to Tokyo. The other two are also former Canadians living in Japan. Lyall is also a guitar player, “focusing on improvisation, spatialization and urban noise”, and Olive “uses magnetic pickups to amplify the inner voices of metal objects”. ‘Lemtat Unit’ was recorded “at Ochiai Soup in 2014, shortly after a trio performance at SuperDeluxe”, and I am not sure why that was mentioned. The recording was recently unearthed and consists of thirty minutes of music, chopped up into many smaller pieces. It doesn’t sound like a live recording, but come to think of it, maybe it’s not a live recording at all. There is an excellent interaction going on here between the two guitarists, whose instruments we recognise most of the time, but it’s Olive who adds a level of abstraction to the pieces. He uses his magnetic pick-ups to sing, hum, bending and droning his sounds backwards over and turn them inside out, whereas the guitars buzz and scratch, and sometimes try to emulate what Olive is doing; or that’s what I gather from this. The music is loud but not all too noisy (as in distortion galore). There’s a distinct, direct-in-your-face sound here, with effects notably absent. Lovely stuff! - Frans de Waard
(Bad Alchemy) Lemtat Unit (eh?132, C-32) von SUPERTOQUE ist ein Mitschnitt dessen, was Kelly Churko (1977-2014) und Cal Lyall mit Electric Guitar & Electronics und Tim Olive mit Magnetic Pickups & Electronics am 14.10.2011 in Tokyo gespielt haben. Churko, seit 2001 ein Viertelsjapaner und 2009 sogar Teil vom Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo und von Natsuki Tamuras First Meeting, war in Palimpsest und Nikka-sen mit Lyall verbunden, einem kanadischen Ex-Pat in Tokyo, und in Toque mit Olive, der, ebenfalls Kanadier, seit Jahren in Kobe ansässig ist. Ihre gemeinsamen Nenner sind Noise und harsche, krätzige, turbulent tachistische Action. Stellenweise wird zwischen wetzenden, klopfenden Gesten und federnden, knirschenden Geräuschen plastisch, dass Saiten im Spiel sind, geplinkt, mit wer weiß was gerieben, öfters jedoch garstig traktiert. Wummrige und drahtige Drones werden von gehacktem, gescharrtem, knurschigem Krach akzentuiert und konterkariert. Dennoch wirkt das weniger aggressiv als wie der Einklang mit der japanischen Sensibilität für die harten, rauen, rissigen Aspekte der Realität. - Rigo Dittmann
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