Maximum Ernst: Hallmark Of A Crisis Period 12"

Maximum Ernst: Hallmark Of A Crisis Period 12"


Tags: · 20s · experimental · new york · noise and industrial · power electronics · techno
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Five years into their long strange drip, the duo of Maximum Ernst continues to confound, perplex, confuse and refract. Foetal returns yielded guitar/drum scramble in service of improvisational incongruity and radical reimaginings of alt-world smash hits by Faust, Snatch and Easy Cure. A link with Old Master horn maestro and official NYC gem Daniel Carter emerged and soon thereafter a CD and live cassette popped a few eardrums just right, so tight. Further uncharted territories were conquered and liberated as Maximum Ernst furiously and fitfully would-shedded. Woodnā€™t you? Quit playing. That was the advice of one medical doctor and also a licensed quantum mathematician; but still the daft, disappearing duo of Maximum Ernst gestured, rudely, NAY and thus, this newest release finds itself in your hands, begging for a vigorous clean.

Please, indulge.

ā€œUn Menace Naturalā€ welds together extra-dimensional birdsong, soothing bursts of noise, the timbre of waves on a nonexistent beach and uncanny, unnerving shrieks smeared into beguiling patterns. It builds, it ebbs, it flows, it knows. It knows everything. Itā€™s like if Jon fucking Hassell and Black fucking Dice had a fucking Baby. ā€œHallmark Of A Crisis Periodā€ is a cut-up tour de force that shivers with unhinged delirium and barely-concealed malice. Imagine William S. Burroughs interpreting a Whitehouse ā€œbangerā€ as being live-mixed by Nurse With Wound. Imagine it, you fool! Despair not, heathen, as Maximum Ernst has imagined it for you.

And it is as glorious as a sunset must be to a hanged man.

Rejoice, for you have entered the Crisis Period, and nothing will ever be the same.Ā 

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