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Re: Thela album





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.