Autechre zurich

Limited edition of 500 copies pressed at RTI and packaged in heavy duty jackets screen printed at Monoroid.

Featuring members of Tony Wilson (Knives ov Resistance), Neil Halstead (Slowdive/Mojave 3), & Sarah

Peacock (Seefeel). First 100 mailorder copies on white vinyl.

Zurich began as a 1994 musical partnership between Neil Halstead then of Slowdive and Tony F Wilson.

The two recorded a handful of tracks together at a time when Wilson was co-promoting and DJing at the

club/live night Quirky in South London where he booked acts including Pan Sonic, Hafler Trio and Autechre.

Halstead was shortly to begin work on Slowdive’s final and most experimental album Pygmalion. Recorded

at a time when the popularity of ambient techno was at its peak, these recordings are remarkably austere

by comparison. Whilst A Harsh Truth displays the Oriental gracefulness of a Sakamoto/Sylvian collaboration,

Tzarist’s gothic industrialism shares more in common with the early works of Coil. Following the release of

Pygmalion and Creation letting go of Slowdive, Halstead would disband Slowdive and abandon

sound experimentation to create more song-based material in Mojave 3. Shortly thereafter,

Wilson began collaborating with drum & bass producer and engineer Joe Gray on more rhythm

based, yet still atmospheric productions. Too Scared to Breath features the voice of Seefeel’s

Sarah Peacock and sounds not unlike prime Autechre and Aphex. Militia (Dynamic Warfare) on

the other hand mirrors the post-metal Dub of Techno Animal and Scorn.

All of the recordings were lost until very recently when Touch recording artist Mark Van Hoen

found the two tracks on old CD-Rs and cassettes he was given by Wilson.

Wilson produced and recorded in the Knives ov Resistance project for the Aurora Borealis label

and is currently working on a project with Ted Parson (Swans/Prong).

1 The Mastmaker

2 Tzarist

3 A Harsh Truth

4 Too Scared To Breath

5 Militia [Dynamic Warfare]

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