ALAN LICHT

Currents

(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ012) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)

Minimal, acoustic melodicism from this NYC mainstay.

ALAN LICHT / TAMIO SHIRAISHI

Our Lips Are Sealed

(Pure) Used CD $5.00

“Shirashi’s saxophone is more Borbetomagus than jazz —short and mostly irritating sounds, the equivalent of screeching glass. Licht’s role here is to create noisy electronics by abusing twin reverb, digital delay, turbo rat, snf tube screamer. From 1997

ALAN LICHT

Rabbi Sky

(Siltbreeze) Used CD $10.00

Listening to the opener, the title track executed in five movements, one is cast headlong into a minimalist menagerie; the bracing, string-tingling beginning segues into a hypnotizing, ecclesiastical chord organ drone, resurrecting into a tremendous cut-and-paste finale of looped and overdubbed guitar that whirls around in the air performing a lascivious, improvisational fandango. On the other hand, “All Blues” (dedicated to both James McNew and Phill Niblock) is pure aggro-muzz that takes on an almost anthemic persona — a 10-plus-minute battle royale of MXR Blue Box fuzz and feedback carnage that sounds like a chimney full of hornets fornicating on the first day of mating season.