Re: Thela album

[Greg Godwin <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Greg Godwin wrote:
> >
> > > Rosy Parlane is a moniker for
> > > Paul Douglas... I don't believe either him nor Dion Workman (the other
> > > half of Parmentier) are based in NZ any longer. somewhere in europe.
> >
> > > Now, Paul Douglas, Dion Workman and msr. Dean Roberts used to be in a
> > > rather neat free-noise/post-rock whatever guitar band called Thela. They
> > > have a lovely album out on Esctatic Peace. quite different from what
> > > they all do now, but interesting they all kind of went off into a
> > > similar field after Thela broke up.
> >
> >
> > Yes, Thela "Argentina" (1996), it's a nice mix of gentle feedback and guitar
> > textures with a few repetitive notes/patterns and rather calm drumming.
> > Mostly pretty soothing long instrumental tracks. Tom Surgal is credited as
> > co-producer.
> > i would have never made the link to rosy p.
Actually I can hear a continuation of Thela in the first Parmentier 
release... i don't actually own the sigma Parmentier release, but i do 
have their double 10" lathecut on Crawlspace titled "Odessa", its really 
lovely and lowkey... soft percussion over light drones. sleepy music 
going nowhere in a hurry. nice!

rosy parlane also has some lathe releases on Imperial Records (NZ) from 
a while ago, from what i've been told, they are very different to his 
current output, free-range guitar mangling

anyone who has seen sigma live? are they laptop geeks now? or live 
instrumentation? parmentier played some records and a sampler when i saw 
them but that was a couple of years back.

my pants smell like cigarettes. yuk
g.