Dave Phillips- The Hermeneutics of Fear Of God LP (Absurd Records, Brazil, 2008)
Finally, Dave Phillips‘ “The Hermeneutics of Fear Of God” is available again!
What can I say? Of all the “extreme” music I heard in my life, from poststructural noise to Grindcore, from Death Metal to Hardcore Thrash, this has got got to be the most vicious, aggressive and torturing record that I know. Dave obsessively inspected, dissected, turned around and reassembled the sonic remains of our old band FEAR OF GOD and thus created a bastard noise version of it that leaves me breathless still. One seriously wonders with which results the same method would twist, revolt other already “extreme” sounding music and we can only hope for Dave Phillips, the modern day Frankenstein, to lay more corpses on his experimental scaffolds, cutting and stitching and pestering them, thus deliberately creating more bastards to haunt our nights (when reason is put to sleep).
Read more here and here and order the expanded vinyl version (58 songs, 500 made only, 100 on colored vinyl) or the CD version (Digipack, 61 songs plus a short but lovely bonus Video) from Absurd Records (greetings to Marcelo!). As you can see, the minimalistic but affectionately done LP comes with insert (not visible on the photos), stamped innersleeve and sticker.
Some song samples (more here):
____> wrote:
great this is finally made available again. hope some german distro will have this!
Posted on 21-Apr-08 at 5:10 am | Permalink
justin wrote:
I had to look up hermeneutics in the dictionary. For the other burnt out minds out there, “the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts” (or music I guess). I think the title is very acurate of the recording. Dave Phillips is a genius, how the hell did he do that? I like the second sample the best, it recaptures that first FOG moment for me. Nice post Erich.
Posted on 21-Apr-08 at 10:32 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
Once again the only “grind” band I can enjoy while scanning the sleeves for my powerpop records.
Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 1:54 pm | Permalink
paris wrote:
That’s really awesome stuff, thanks! I’ve been learning so much from you about music I missed in my cloistered days of crossover, New York & Connecticut circa 1986-87. There was so much happening at the time about which I had no idea!
By the way, a “text” is any discrete, situated, analyzable datum, which includes written texts, gestures, music, social encounters, whatever. Jacques Derrida, quoted in an interview, said: ” ‘You can deconstruct gestures, choreography. That’s why I enlarged the concept of text… Everything is a text; this is a text,’ he said, waving his arm at the diners around him in the bland suburbanlike restaurant, blithely picking at their lunches.”
Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 8:49 pm | Permalink
lortgrodan wrote:
Oh-my-god! This was sooo great, I love FOG as you were but this was to take it a step further. Great great stuff!!
Posted on 22-Apr-08 at 8:53 pm | Permalink
fernando Martínez He wrote:
Cool thang, thanks! Such pleasant noise. (I’m serious!)
There’s a bizarre connection with ol’ F. Schleiermacher here, cos (if I remember well) Gadamer tracked hermeneutics back to him and, on the other hand, Schleiermacher was known for basing religion on some feeling (Gefühl) that (let me abuse a bit here, haha) could be described as “fear of god”. On the other hand, deconstruction sounds like destroying with care (like Rotten said, “get pissed, deconstruct!”)
And the doodle man again (on the cover), I must insist, I see a “fully coherent” Magits connection…
Saluditos
Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 6:47 pm | Permalink
Sean Hogan wrote:
I got the original version of the 12″ back in ‘03!
Ya know, this IS a brutal record.
Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
Fernando wrote:
Just got it from the Marcelo’s store, already lost about 50% of my hearing, this is the most insane thing i’ve got in years, instant classic, thanx Erich and Dave. Direto de São Paulo, Brasil.
Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 7:13 pm | Permalink
Fernando wrote:
Oops it seems there are two Fernandos now? I’m the original! haha (well I’ve been commenting here for more than a year under that name), btw it was strange my previous comment appeared with my 2nd name. I wouldn’t mind having the CD, but that comment no 8 isnt mine.
Posted on 25-Apr-08 at 7:58 am | Permalink