Owl Sounds with Arrington De Dionyso - Cow on Mushrooms CDR (2005)
Much-heralded item from contemporary "jazz" unit, this was selected as one of Wire Magazine's top Jazz & Improv releases of 2005. Released in a first edition of 55, with a second edition of 85 a few months later; this is one of the first 55.
"What exactly happens indeed, when the cow, upon whose waste thy magic mushroom doth grow, consumes that very entity of fungal delight? Oh the beautiful things he sees and hears and feels and he delights in his world as never before! It is with similar luscious frenzy that we present to you a new recording of such a whirlwind and cosmically manic nature, that only the aforementioned cow will know just what to do/say feel/think be/know! The twisted and ever-playful OWL SOUNDS percussive/rhythmic core of Adam Kriney (traps) and Gene Janas (acoustic bass) frolic in the field of improvised sonics with beloved and bewildering bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso. Now, you may have heard our dear Arrington freaking out on guitar/vocals wild-rock style in his band OLD TIME RELIJUN who've released several full length albums of the legendary K Records, or possibly as curator of the Olympia Festival Of Experimental Musics for the past 11 years, or maybe even as a renowned performer/teacher of multiphonic Tuvan throatsinging, yes indeed what a fellow. And when the frolicing is through, a trail of African poly-rhythmics and freak-out anti-rhythmics, bathed in arco-invocations and low-end mutherfucking boom-boom, all raked over reeds of wicked wailing and banshee battlecries dis-/appears before your ears, goddamn, what a trip!? Now this is not to intimate the recording is with out it's calmer pastures, our boys know when to wiggle into sinewy explorations, but BAM! its astral occupation all over again, so don't get too comfy, ya dig? Packaged in gorgeous and surreal hand made art." - Colour Sounds