Simon Wickham-Smith & Richard Youngs
VEIL (for Greg)
Originally released in 1997, this peculiar and quite wonderful record by two of British experimental music's most intriguing characters: the prolific and multi-talented Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith - a one-time Tibetan Buddhist monk and researcher in transgender astrology. Veil (For Greg) is a foray into electronic psychedelia and experimental sound textures, processing sounds in a rough, visceral fashion through pieces like 'Bars' and the oscillator tweaking formlessness of 'Obese Americans'. Some tracks take on more decipherable patterns, such as 'Indiana Spike Dance', with its percussion and blipping synths, while 'Land Of Lincoln' merely masquerades as a more sensible offering than it really is, deploying its nearly-in-time drum machine pulse to distract you from the maelstrom of atonal unpleasantness lurking beneath the surface.
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Originally released in 1997, this peculiar and quite wonderful record by two of British experimental music's most intriguing characters: the prolific and multi-talented Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith - a one-time Tibetan Buddhist monk and researcher in transgender astrology. Veil (For Greg) is a foray into electronic psychedelia and experimental sound textures, processing sounds in a rough, visceral fashion through pieces like 'Bars' and the oscillator tweaking formlessness of 'Obese Americans'. Some tracks take on more decipherable patterns, such as 'Indiana Spike Dance', with its percussion and blipping synths, while 'Land Of Lincoln' merely masquerades as a more sensible offering than it really is, deploying its nearly-in-time drum machine pulse to distract you from the maelstrom of atonal unpleasantness lurking beneath the surface.
Originally released in 1997, this peculiar and quite wonderful record by two of British experimental music's most intriguing characters: the prolific and multi-talented Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith - a one-time Tibetan Buddhist monk and researcher in transgender astrology. Veil (For Greg) is a foray into electronic psychedelia and experimental sound textures, processing sounds in a rough, visceral fashion through pieces like 'Bars' and the oscillator tweaking formlessness of 'Obese Americans'. Some tracks take on more decipherable patterns, such as 'Indiana Spike Dance', with its percussion and blipping synths, while 'Land Of Lincoln' merely masquerades as a more sensible offering than it really is, deploying its nearly-in-time drum machine pulse to distract you from the maelstrom of atonal unpleasantness lurking beneath the surface.
Originally released in 1997, this peculiar and quite wonderful record by two of British experimental music's most intriguing characters: the prolific and multi-talented Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith - a one-time Tibetan Buddhist monk and researcher in transgender astrology. Veil (For Greg) is a foray into electronic psychedelia and experimental sound textures, processing sounds in a rough, visceral fashion through pieces like 'Bars' and the oscillator tweaking formlessness of 'Obese Americans'. Some tracks take on more decipherable patterns, such as 'Indiana Spike Dance', with its percussion and blipping synths, while 'Land Of Lincoln' merely masquerades as a more sensible offering than it really is, deploying its nearly-in-time drum machine pulse to distract you from the maelstrom of atonal unpleasantness lurking beneath the surface.