Beautiful Speck Triumph

by Birchville Cat Motel

Beautiful Speck Triumph cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2004
  • Label: Last Visible Dog
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Length: 2:10:48
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Campbell Kneale's project Birchville Cat Motel reaches a peak of density and beauty on 'Beautiful Speck Triumph'. The album layers distorted guitar drones with shimmering electronics and field recordings to create a massive, immersive sound. it is a unique and masterful work of New Zealand experimental music.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, instrumental, noisy, repetitive, ambient, minimal, droning, long-form, electronic, guitars, lo-fi, shimmering

Tracklist

  1. White Ground Elder (30:32)
  2. Trembling Frost Spires (18:31)
  3. Speck Fears (19:20)
  4. Its More Fun To Compute (5:56)
  5. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (19:51)
  6. Beautiful Speck Triumph (36:38)

Credits

  • Campbell Kneale - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, guitar [fake], synthesizer, organ [cheap], recorder, clarinet, electronics [contact mics], turntables [wired], violin, bells, rattle [baby], performer [firecrackers], piano, cymbal, melodica, performer [steel pot lid], drums, electronics [space phone], loops [tape loops], performer [floorboards]
  • Joe Tunis - photography by [cover photo]
  • Birchville Cat Motel - Primary Artist

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