HOME PRODUCE: COUNTRYBIZARRE

"The Home Produce/Country Bizarre CD originally saw life some twenty-one years ago as a limited cassette release on the Tago Mago label, which was run by Pascal Bussy; the scribe behind early Can and Kraftwerk biogs. It saw Eyeless in Gaza & Lol Coxhill occupying different floors of the same house, yet never interacting. But now with this laudable reissue, EIG have blended Lol's spectral soprano wail with their own current investigations into improv-theory and forged an entirely new set of instrumental pieces, bristling with rare invention and spirit. It's an Eyeless in Gaza that may not be THAT familiar to those who treasure those old Cherry Reds. With a burgeoning interest in the anti-musical parameters of metal pipes and sheeting, their soundworld has taken on more angular and jarring aspects since those days when they almost seemed to have taken root in the independent charts. Lol Coxhill: looking very dapper in dinner jacket on the front sleeve (a pic cribbed from the 'Fleas in Custard' LP) is quite obviously a national treasure and on the strength of this, the Gaza boys aren't lagging far behind." www.eyelessingaza.com