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Big Blood : Sew Your Wild Days Tour vol I + comic book (US,2006)***°
dontrustheruin Big Blood : Sew Your Wild Days Tour vol II (US,2006)***'?
* The second track on this home recorded collection, “Vitamin C” was written by Can. This German group with their own recording studio often used ideas of strange sounds of guitars on interesting rhythms, at times further developed from what was originally inspired from ethnic ideas. It seems like, to some degree, Big Blood adapted and developed something equally further and added top new ideas, versions and variations firstly with percussion rhythms and guitar sounds. On top are a few folkier elements, and a sharp high note voice singing (think of Joanna Newsom on the last track, which gets a gospel like choir too, while banjo and electric guitar finish the outro), a voice which is even a bit sharper through the use of some distortion twice. Also here the tracks hang well together.
* Michael Conner created a comic book out of the album. The first few sounds of the musical album adapt a few baby sounds into the musical creation process, while the music finally will brings us to a more surreal and somehow psychedelic sphere. The comic book, based not entirely on this album alone, shows the meeting of the duo couple and the birth of the little boy as if seen from a different dimension, starting from the scene where both were born out of the same blood, but Caleb is a more machine-like herder on earth, and Colleen lives in the air. She creates from the gifts from birds a gigantic new machine, which is also a tree. While the hungry sheep cover the earth, eating their way and make their signs, Caleb makes a way upstairs. When the two meet, the machine became like a musical machine, which now, on this meeting point, created the right harmonising notes, with a new process which results in the process of birth, falling down to earth again, but which is saved in the middle, by the uniting energy of love, in the form of a blood heart, consisting and uniting all three of them. A wonderful bonus surprise.
* Also volume II hangs well together. It is a collection of strange acoustic songs, partly sung by a kind of radio voice and instrumentals. There’s something surreal about this, which I think will only be revealed to me after various listens before getting a grip on it better, but I hope this small description gives already an idea what to expect.
