Height/Dismay - Height/Dismay
Format: 7" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: ES024
Barcode: 4251804129459
Release Date: 18 Feb 2022
Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro
7”. Edition of 281 copies. Hand stamped, cover white ink printed on coloured card.
Tracklist:
1. Blood Pressure In The Sand
2. Dusk
3. The Tinning Test
Height/Dismay were the M Squared studio-as-instrument duo of Patrick Gibson and Dru Jones. A member of Systematics and Scattered Order, Gibson was an integral part of the M Squared label and studio, where he met Jones. With an unapologetic misuse of instruments and ample time, the two sonic explorers scraped guitar strings, manipulated clarinets, and contact mic’d woks to layer their echo chamber apparitions.
Collating three 1981 recordings, the then-shelved ‘Blood Pressure In The Sand’ joins ‘Dusk’, their con-tribution to archetypal cassette-zine Fast Forward. Also unreleased, ‘The Tinning Test’ rejects formal lyrics in favour of a deadpan reading from the Australian Standard for tinned copper wire. The outsid-ers of the outside, these mutual minds’ productions have long been overlooked as crucial pieces of the Australian DIY music puzzle.
Height/Dismay is pressed in an edition of 281 hand stamped white labels, wrapped in white ink print-ed coloured card.
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