Volcano The Bear - 1999 - The Inhazer Decline

Genre: Avantgarde, Free Folk
Label: United Diaries (UK)

Similar Artists: Nurse With Wound

Krautrock, Freeform Folk, Freaky, Weird...

When Nurse With Wound's "A Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table.." was first released in 1979, the response was one of bafflement. Volcano The Bear's first album for NWW's United Dairies is just as baffling. Ostensibly following the 70s art-rock damage of Faust (especially 'Tapes') and the willfull eccentricity of The Shadow Ring, Volcano The Bear (Byram refuses to call them anything but BJ and the Bear) plods through disjointed percussive riffs with alien droning, incongruous guitar work, and a crystal clear production which wouldn't be out of place on Too Pure. It's not hard to see why Steven Stapleton sought this group out after their Pickled Egg debut for a United Dairies release. 

Tracklisting

1. Planetary Bethlehem 
   
2. Quarterstone 
   
3. Musima 
   
4. Bowl 
   
5. Ruth Da Moose 
   
6. Worse With Noun 
   
7. Giant Angels 
   
8. Vast Blanket 
   
9. Mung 
   
10. The Queen's Teeth 
    
11. Here Are The Bounds 
    
12. Planetary Bethlehem 
    

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