#zaimph

Deep-rooted in the US underground scene, the solo project of Marcia Basset aka Zaïmph builds ominous walls of sound in layers, while the Lisbon duo Manuel Mota & Margarida Garcia improvise on electric bass and guitar. "Ignatz aka Belgium’s Bram Devens creates skeletal folk songs and space hollers using acoustic and electric guitar, vocals, weird tape loops and backwards F/X. It's the kind of ferociously personal and hermetically beautiful soundworld that would reconcile outsider artist Jandek with an early Dylan/Basement Tapes feel. Indeed, Devens gets deep inside the source of the blues, at points mainlining the ghost of Blind Willie McTell but cutting it with amazing, hypnotic spindly guitar shapes. The songs are haunted, with Devens delving deep in personal arcana and bad memories but somehow transmuting them into jewel-like ruminations on the past, the present and the sound of the eternal now." - David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue / The Wire)