Cameron Wood, Three Thoughts on C Tuning (CDR Winter)

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Cameron Wood is a true do-it-yourselfer, from the playing and recording to the cover insert and typewritten liner notes, which state that he recorded this mini-album on his day off and edited it the following weekend.

After being lulled into believing we´re in for a half hour of lazy, lo-fi blues meanderings by the first two untitled tracks on Three Thoughts on C Tuning, Wood unleashes twenty-five minutes of blistering deconstructive guitar torture, feedback shrill on top and dense muck on the bottom, utterly unimpregnable, passionately obnoxious and ultimately out to destroy any semblence of tuning regardless of key.

Like the proverbial car wreck on the highway, you just can´t tear your ears away from it, even though you know listening to it will give you nightmares. As it slowly subsides and resolves itself, an actual, albeit jagged two-note melody can be discerned trying to make itself heard over the buzz - a last desperate attempt at "music" to assert itself amid the apparent nihilism?

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