2004, Smalltown Supersound
HIDROS 3 was written for Sonic Youth by Mats Gustafsson. Together with Gustafsson Sonic Youth teamed up with American guitar legend Loren Connors (aka Loren Mazzacane Connors), Lotta Melin, David Stackenäs and Lindha Kallerdahl. Armed with 5 guitars, electronics, voices, audiobox and contrabass saxophone, the group created a massive and monumental sound.
"Like some Renaissance painter knocking out canvases for Catholic churches while working on a private masterpiece, Sonic Youth’s indentured serfdom at Geffen allows the New York art-punks to pursue ever more extreme experiments in their own time. On October 9, 2000, the saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and three other mysterious Swedes deployed the quintet, alongside the guitarist Loren MazzaCane Connors, to play a piece composed with the layout of the Ystad Art Museum in mind. Each performer was positioned in a different room with a score and a clock, while Jim O’Rourke sat at a mixing desk, deciding what the audience, free to wander at will, would hear. Hidros 3 is surprisingly coherent, and Kim Gordon finds a space to demonstrate her scat singing within the swelling layers" (Stewart Lee, Sunday Times)
"Like some Renaissance painter knocking out canvases for Catholic churches while working on a private masterpiece, Sonic Youth’s indentured serfdom at Geffen allows the New York art-punks to pursue ever more extreme experiments in their own time. On October 9, 2000, the saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and three other mysterious Swedes deployed the quintet, alongside the guitarist Loren MazzaCane Connors, to play a piece composed with the layout of the Ystad Art Museum in mind. Each performer was positioned in a different room with a score and a clock, while Jim O’Rourke sat at a mixing desk, deciding what the audience, free to wander at will, would hear. Hidros 3 is surprisingly coherent, and Kim Gordon finds a space to demonstrate her scat singing within the swelling layers" (Stewart Lee, Sunday Times)
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