The original concept was to do a single CD, an infinite flowing recyclable work, unlike any Triax release before, yet the sessions were so successful that the 127 minutes recorded easily made the basis for 2 discs, each just over an hour, adding up to the magical total of 121'21". The key to all this was the use of an unusual instrument, actually 2 wine glasses tuned with different amounts of water, and live processing, resulting in tonalities unheard before and further developed with post production pitch shifting and modulation, all forming the key elements that tie the whole collaged work together. That, and much more use of hurdy-gurdy melodic elements than before, results in the very different Triax experience that is the "MoebiusStrip".
Note: disc 2 here is a slightly longer pre-edit to that featured on the 2xCDR edition.
credits
released September 22, 2014
All material created spontaneously by Triax.
Recorded at Tachyon Studio, Knighton Fields Leicester, 30 October 2005.
A direct digital recording, with mix and reconstruction by Alan Freeman,
6+7 / 13+14 November 2005.
Alan Freeman: guitar, synths, effects, voice, loops, wine glasses, bells, whistle.
Steve Freeman: guitar, bass, effects, loops, turntable, synths, cymbals, voice.
Dave Powell: hurdy-gurdy, objects, effects.
Born out of the Extremities project, in a sense, in 2003 Triax couples Alto Stratus with the strangely processed hurdy-gurdy
of Dave Powell, for a unique new hybrid. Dave added many more instruments to his repertoire since, and Triax can vary from ambient drone, via systemic, dirge and raga/folk hybrids on to psychedelic rock, Krautrock and eclectic avant-garde....more
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