Rope House Temper, by Razen

Rope House Temper

by Razen

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1.	The Rake 02:26	buy track
2.	Hand of Ra-ma-sse 05:48	buy track
3.	Rodika 00:33	buy track
4.	Rabies Gum 04:37	buy track
5.	Rare Clothed Mare 10:42	buy track
6.	Rahman & the Ivory Key 06:30	buy track
7.	Raffle of the Night Raga n°1 04:07	buy track
8.	Razen plays Painkiller 06:40	buy track
9.	AxRub 07:04	buy track
10.	Razen & Adrew Liles - Aztek Vampire Riddles 28:09	buy track

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After their one sided debut on KRAAK of a few years back and a collab with BL Saunders for a limited spoken word cassette, Razen mainly focused on live performance and experiments in different line-ups. On Rope House Temper the duo’s basic instrumentation (consisting of differ- ent string and wind instruments) is expanded with tabla, upright bass and hurdy gurdy.

The core business remains the same though: an intuitive quest for trance by means of improvisation and deep listening. Razen’s first real full album is a modernist approach to mystic transcendentalism, blending a passion for ethnic mind expansion and medieval music. Rope House Temper refers alternately to musical environments that were also invoked by the likes of Messiaen, C.C. Hen- nix, Angus MacLise and even Muslimgauze or Early Music Consort of London. Building towards a climactical false ending (‘AxRub’), the album finds a second breath in another 30 minute com- position in which Razen is both courted and abused by the genius of Andrew Liles. This closing ‘Aztek Vampire Riddles’ is a contagious and surreal journey, leaving the listener infected with the worst kind of sonic rabies. Folk music has become the new world’s ultimate schizofrenic, and it is brought to you from the heart of Europe, with a bullet.

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released January 23, 2013

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