BODY/HEAD
'COMING APART' (MATADOR RECORDS, 2013)
★★★★✩
Obviously,
the actual disintegration of a sprawling group as is Sonic Youth multiplies the
published works of its members, ubiquitously restless. What maybe was less
obvious (though logical, if we think on her origins) is that Kim Gordon was who
deepen musically in the artistic, iconoclastic and contemporary side of Sonic
Youth. With Body / Head, her project
with guitarist Bill Nace, they explore the passages that the band managed to
establish in those remote eighties: plastic intersections of abstract sound
that enveloped audience and musicians in a catharsis of physical and mental
alienation: body and mind. Drones, riffs and feedback arising from Gordon and
Nace guitars are reverential to masters of minimalism like Keiji Haino or Jim
O'rourke, by blending into multiple layers with abstract vocal exercises from
the sonic lady, in a very brief narrative form, more feminine and near to Yoko
Ono implausible cadences than ever. The experimental moments from A Thousand Leaves (Geffen, 1998), NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen, 2000)
or the "signature stamp", Sonic
Youth Recordings (specially SYR2
and SYR5) pointed what has come now
with Coming Apart (Matador, 2013). As
in her watercolors or twitter messages painted on canvas, reflective and
impatient, intuitive and spontaneous, Gordon (and Body/Head) commitment is
directly focused to art and performance, to an expanded kind of sound trying to
open some dynamic forces in. And be sure: it's really mysterious and stimulating.
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