temple music, liminal

Music video for the track "temple music" by the Kalamazoo band, liminal. Originally part of "A Box Full of Ghosts", a boxed set of 7" recordings and music videos released in 2001 on the now-defunct Gentle Giant Records label.

From a review in The Wire Issue 233:

A Box Full of Ghosts is a splendid little box that contains a CD-ROM featuring six brief videos and three 7" singles, pressed on black, transparent and yellow vinyl. The first features live tracks from Chicago based laptoppers (sic) TV Pow (from 1997) and a pre-TV Pow six-piece group, Liminal, recorded in 1993. The vinyl crackle is perfect for TV Pow's "A Brief History of Flashing Light", in which someone singing in Japanese is wrapped in a thick blanket of lugubrious digital sludge. Liminal's "Atoms Are Not Things", like the excerpt from their video "Temple Music" on the CD-ROM, is a forlorn, grainy black and white post-Industrial drone. Many of these ghosts seem to be Japanese; inscrutable factory workers twiddle dials in Doug Lussenhop's TV Pow video, neon Tokyo skyscrapes drift in and out of the Liminal clip, and two brief but memorable archive films of Melt Banana (from 1996) and Otomo Yoshihide (from 1994) inject a scorching blast of noise. As does the second 7", featuring The Incapacitants and Kazumoto Endo, whose "Most of My Problems are Solved By An Afternoon Snooze" is about the last thing in the world you could possible nod off to. Otomo also pops up on the third single, his "If 6 was 0" the perfect high speed tour of his wild and wonderful arsenal of sounds. The flipside features another hilariously inventive glimpse into the world of turntablist Christian Marclay, mixing Latin percussion, cheesy listening and warbling divas into a cocktail not all that different from what he was serving up a decade earlier, but delicious nevertheless. (DW)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• liminal
• temple
• music
• tokyo

[goddessmelania]

Idk I like this.. though then again I seem to have a darker side sometimes.. very lovely

[lillmii3o]

Fucking scary shit :S

[L60N]

wtf is this?