Active Cancellation 9

Live Set: William Bennett Afronoise 1 mp3 / 56.38 min / 77.8 meg < alt/rightclick to download >

For the penultimate show from the CYRK curated ACTIVE CANCELLATION radio series, DJ Cut Hands aka William Bennett (Whitehouse) presents a very special one hour mix showcasing some of the first material from his amazing new Afro Noise project.
This mix comprises brand new material produced by William with djembe, doundoun, ksing-ksing, synthesiser, electronics as well as excerpts from Florian Hecker, Whitehouse, East African witchcraft, feline recordings and Ghanaian funeral field recordings.

Some information on Afro Noise from the Cut Hands myspace:

'I think it's been obvious for a while now my fascination with African (and Haiti for that matter), especially in terms of the music, language, and art - the inspiration has been utterly invaluable, and now my plan is to take this passion and endeavour much further with the pursuit of an open-ended genre that I've dubbed afro noise. Essentially to consist of obscure African percussion elements in free-form work-outs with almost any other type of (genuine) sound experimenting. Already in evidence in some of the latter-day Whitehouse tracks, I believe there are incredible and exciting possibilities here which will also serve to draw a firm line between - what seems to me at least, and I've said it before - the utterly staid, conservative, conformist, and oh-so-boring ageing 'noise' genre. Let's recapture the flame and the excitement.'

William Bennett - Edinburgh, June 2007

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