HS00013 Nautical Almanac, Cisum Picture Disc LP 500 $13

Side One

1. reflesible atchulence 19:02 chiara giovando, carly ptak, twig harper

Side Two

1. it's better to tell secrets 5:44 chuck bettis, twig haper, carly ptak

2. istomonography 15:15 chris jolly, carly ptak, twig harper

 

IT"S OFFICIAL

BYRON COLEY SAYS SO IN THE WIRE JULY 2003

"How Nautical Almanac, or any of the other groups associated with the
extreme edges of the new American electronic noise underground, fit into
the picture of 'music as we know it' is a real question. The insane
wobbling and instrumental barking that fills this picture disc LP is so
berserk, so difficult to grasp, contain or describe, that it almost
requires a new taxonomy.

There's a lot of stuff in this camp these days. Electronic post-core
anarchists are breaking loose from everywhere, creating assaultive or
hilarious hogwash from what are, ostensibly, primitive dance mook
generators. But what would Giorgio Moroder make of something like this? I mean the most musical parts on Cisum are like something ripped from the
soundtrack of an animated film about pelvic infections among Turkish women. And the non-musical bits are much stranger than that - something like code messages transmitted by squirrels trapped in deep space, or the squeaks an elevator control panel makes in a very dire emergency.

Nautical Almanac first appeared a few years ago as a tangential member of
the American Tapes/Hanson Records alliance, along with Universal Indians,Wolf Eyes and all else. Now they base themselves in Baltimore, Maryland and are on the way to creating a new mid-Atlantic noise treaty organisation.
Released on their own Heresee label, this album is a fairly spectacular
leap into the unknown. The group are currently engaged in a spontaneously
unfolding three month tour of the USA, which may well be the first hard
evidence of a new, cohesively sprawling underground scene. And this record, powerful in Dionysian overtones that place it far beyond the sniff shadow cast by glitch merchants, could be a rich philosophical tract in the
creation of something swift. As music, it may have its doubters, but as
pure sonic power it's undeniable."