Tuesday, December the 16th, 2003
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Go immediately to the ReR Megacorp and buy this album:
Here are some of the credits:
Lukas Simonis—guitars & mandolin. Bob Drake—bass & guitars. Chris Cutler—drums & electrified kit. Frank Key—liner notes & illustrations, naming of album & track titles.
You can see a larger version of the cover here, read some of the liner notes (among other things) here, or for your general edification and delight visit Chris and Bob. Incidentally, Bob has a magnificent online art tutorial which is highly recommended.
Here is the Amazon.com editorial review :
“Vril is an adrenalized, poppy, rampant batch of rock guitar instrumentals. The Shadows, The Ventures, Surf music, early Hendrix are invoked, but they're all put through the intense mangle of 21st century thinking and studio trickery. It's a twangy guitar album gone mad, complete with a fascinating art-and-texts booklet which reads like a liner notes by Edgar Allen Poe. The album features three unlikely avant-garde musicians: Dutch guitarist Lukas Simonis, bass player/mastering wiz Bob Drake and famed percussionist Chris Cutler.”
Breathless prose, eh? Flattering though it may be to be compared to the great neurasthenic one, I'm not sure I see the connection.* And couldn't they have spelled Allan correctly?
* NOTE : Bob Drake writes (17th December 2003) : “It is true. Have you not read any of Edgar Allen Poe's work? (Not to be confused with Edgar Allan Poe.) He mentions stolen paint, calcium, unguents, poultices, swollen diagrams, purposeless turnips, cilliated plumula, and cormorants in every one of his works.” To enrich your experience of Bob's informative letter, I have added those links so you can see what he's talking about. But beware! Following any of them will lead you away from Hooting Yard—possibly pursued by big fearsome owls—so do make sure you come back
You know, Virginia Woolf was right!
