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Dave Phillips – Homo Animalis (Schimpfluch)
Hanson Records — DAVE PHILLIPS - Homo Animalis Double CD (Schimpfluch Associates)
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Dave Phillips (*1969) has been a purveyor of radical sound since the mid 80's, as a founding member of Fear Of God in 1987 and since 1991 as part of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe (with Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz and others). Working solo since 1987, dp has developed a unique sonic language typified by sharp compositional techniques and existentialist/environmentalist connotations.
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Listen: Dave Phillips compositions - The Wire
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The album develops Phillips's concept of humanimalism. Nick Cain (in The Wire 366) says: "An exact definition of humanimalism is hard to pin down – a kind of different state of awareness and inquiry achieved through withdrawal and rejection – but it’s clearly derived from Phillips’s commitment to animal rights (buried in several of the tracks are what could be the sounds of animals in varying degrees of distress) and his frequent critiques of organised religion."
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Dave Phillips – Homo Animalis (Schimpfluch)
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Homo Animalis is unrelentingly dark, foreboding, and at times grim and malevolent sound art. Electrics are mixed on equal footing with the primal, with the human voice, and undefined animalistic roars, with deep guttural growling and terrifying screeching to create an unsettling edgy uncomfortable landscape.
Swiss based sound artist Dave Phillips seems to love the drama, he loves to induce palpitations in the listener, enacting the fight or flight response with impossibly deep, impossibly close mic’d growling often occurring in tandem with multiple dogs barking. Lots of inhuman sounds appear and disappear throughout the pieces, meshed together in an unwieldy web of voluminous sound.
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