Damn. The quest for buying his releases blindly, without knowing what is coming, can have very nice results.
ORGANUM / DAVID JACKMAN "Penquins eat fish/Little Dark Wing" 7"
Robot Records rr-33
You think about the name and wonder could it be good? Well, risky investment of c. 10 euro and it was actually very nice.
A-side is more like modern day industrial music. It starts with the lo-fi drone sound, soon appears militaristic marching drum is perhaps more scottish wibe. Like beginning of the bag pipe atrocities. Heavy and colossal boat horn blows in accurate tempo, giving monumental feeling to snare drum march. Fast trumpet fanfares are kind of out of tempo perhaps, but mixed in distance. It's not drenched in reverb like they'd do on the uniform fetishist industrial scene, nor there is vocals, and also how does the title of track relate to sound, is unknown to me. But most importantly, it simply works. It's all about the obsessive loop process. And I won't complain about that in this case.
B-side is his solo works. It is extremely minimalistic piano. Basically two different chords, bounded slowly, between c. 5 seconds. Hard attack, which probably gets compressed by recording methods, and the tone of piano echoing with the natural style of this instrument. There is nothing else really in the composition. 2 chords are being played perhaps slightly over 2 minutes and in end of piece you hear the sound of penquin. Strength of piece is absolutely just the piano and format. Composition itself is nothing out of ordinary. But on side of 45rpm 7" with just the pure acoustic instrument with its natural sound. Well, it works.
