Some Place Else
Packed in a 7" sleeve from an earlier release on Some Place Else, the CD-r 'Bootleg Epiphanies' contains a selection of sessions and collaborations between the guy behind the beforementioned Some Place Else, Niko Skorpio, and Ibrahim Terzic. The first we know from his activities under his own name as well as his works as Reptiljan and sadly Ibrahim remains a little unknown for me. Though these fourteen tracks - with various lengths between 30 seconds and 7 minutes - emphasize it will be a matter of time until his works will find their way to my CD-collection.
The tracks are brillant in sound and it makes a Class-A amplifier struggle: Impressively layered sound-collages and noisescapes. And it's all just a sample from "hundreds of hours of work and experiments". Something like the Merzbox or the TG24 would have been an idea also, though it remains to be seen whether all material is as magickal as these chosen few.
So to keep "hundreds of hours" of nice words about Rajapinta, the men behind these 'Bootleg Epiphanies', limited to a few paragraphs, I can only conclude with a quote by Tony Conrad that is printed on the cover:
"The difference between an epiphany and a simple drug rush is that an epiphany reveals some kind of cultural truth. The condition of epiphany is a moment of stark contrast, a slippage of the two surfaces; somehow a lie is refracted and shattered, and a truth is there. An epiphany gives you something to take away forever."
(Tony Conrad in The Wire issue 255)
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