CLANG QUARTET
Jihad (Silber Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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A strange collection of sound collages coming from Scotty Irving, former percussionist of Eugene Chadbourne, Elvis X, and Geezer Lake, among others. Using taped phone conversations, feedback, electronic effects, loops, static, and bits of what sound like Irving lecturing someone or something on music, God, and the spirituality of both-the lectures are especially effective when the voices are jumping from one speaker to another pretty much on every word. The band's name is a misnomer, by the way-this is a solo project, and not an actual quartet. While I like most of this, mostly because it's just plain weird, the lecturing bits kind of turn me off because I don't like to be lectured to, even if it's not exactly directed at me.

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