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XXL (Xiu Xiu Larsen) - Spicchiology? - CD
imprec130 - CD- $11.99 
All Important Records direct mailorder copies will include
a free bonus album of improvised XXL material taken from their rehersal
sessions. This disc is as strong as the full length.
Spicchiology? is the sophomore release from the supergroup XXL
comprising all members of Xiu Xiu and Larsen.
Recorded in late 2006 in Torino Italy Spicchiologi? is the
result of a profoundly creative friendship translated into music
and spanning the globe.
“It is hard as an American, if of a somewhat borish,middle
class suburban , albeit freakishly desperate artistically inclined
background, to really present without being excessivly prosaic as
to what it could mean to have, for the second time in ones life,
two weeks to spend in a sublime foreign city with the only premeditated
task at hand being, with good friends, to make a record about sadness
and violence and history. Well prosacism cannot be denied, it was,
by God, in Italy.
Blood Oranges, the wrapper of being spicchio. The concerted study
of being Spicchiology?.
As I type this I am watching an Italian film about terrosism in
Italy in the late 1970s. I did not know anything about this time
until the men of Larsen told Caralee and me about it over wine.Now
in America it is all that Washington says: "terror.' But they
already knew and were ready to push past and through it again, holding
our historyless hands.
Everyday before recording we walked by a tower that in the1300's
the town executioner occupied and the bones of the people he was
paid with taxes to behead were buried around it. The Oakland police
department? Please! Warehouse shows? Barf! The souls of unbaptised
infants live in the black painted and burned cathedral cum gallery
where one of the three XXL guitarist curates art music shows. Not
to say that Europe knows all but it has hurt itself for 2000 years
and in America we have only just begun.
If the last XXL record was romanitc and fun , this one is broken
and
superior. Look at yourself! Your matress is embarassed that you
give it a
job.
The farfisa is a real one, not a sampler. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!”
-James Stewart of XXL (and Xiu Xiu)
February 2007
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| Ciautastico! |
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Ciautistico!
is the debut album from XXL (Xiu Xiu Larsen),
a collaboration between the Italian experimental cult band
Larsen and James Stewart's mutated-pop project Xiu
Xiu. Both groups consider their joint creative clash as
a new band in itself more than just an occasional collaboration
as it has been already proved by the succesful sold out theater
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| LARSEN |
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Larsen
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To say
that Larsen is mysterious or elusive is an understatement.
They are are so elusive, in fact, that Micheal Gira of The
Swans/Angels Of Light fame once said of Larsen “"I
worked intimately with the band for three weeks, but I never
saw their faces." Perhaps the finest description of their
sound came from a perceptive, if not overly wordy, Italian
music journalist who described them as an “italian-cult-collective-urban-folk-ritual-experimental
soundscape-wall of love band.” It’s all true.
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| LARSEN |
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| HMKE
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-read a recent Larsen interview
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Larsen's
HMKE contains a Deathprod remix and an Origami
Galaktika remix of two new Larsen tracks. The remaining
two tracks are unremixed Larsen originals unavailable
elsewhere and featuring their beloved cellist Julia Kent
(also of Antony & The Johnsons.)
The second track M, a Larsen original, will be
available on the forthcoming Larsen album Seis but
as a Lustmord/Larsen collaboration and not in
this original form.
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The Cables Into The Wind |
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Debut
solo album from Larsen's Fabrizio Modonese Polumbo.
"...surprisingly gentle inflections, combining low voices,
groung hugging mists of keyboards, genial electronic hucklebuck
and even acoustic guitar to create small vistas of delightful
otherness..."
The Wire
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