Insect Trust and Cassiber (was Re: Insect Trust)

[James Kyllo]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>

>   Much to be found on this
> Cassiber on this here Infonet deal.  Sounds like the
> kind of stuff my kid brother might have, if I only
> knew where to find him ...

The Cassiber album is a little short on tunes to widely recommend, but I
quite enjoy it.  The Pynchon tracks are, however amongst the least succesful
imo.  It consists of "texts", spoken, sung or intoned over avant-rock music.
5 (of 18) texts are from GR.  They describe themselves in thr ReR catalogue
thus: "Cassiber always operate on fringes, always a little wild and always
radical.  Now hailed as postmodern, they aren't that out of date yet.
Cassiber extends the idea of songs pretty much out of shape and continues to
be radical with the new technology".  I say describe themselves because one
of the three members is Chris Cutler who, apart from being an incredible and
prolific drummer (I've seen him play with Pere Ubu and with Faust), runs ReR
(once Recommended).

Sticking to things mentioned on the list in the last year or so, ReR is a
great souce for eg
Harry Partch, This Heat & Iannis Xenakis

best

James