Foxy still loves D & N 2

Foxy Digitalis thumbs up D & N "2", the full-length debut of the avant-pastoral Nevada Hill and David Lee Price field-trip project. This on the heels of the 9/10 they gave the D & N debut 3-inch:

D & N
D & N 2 CD-r

December 15, 2010
By Tim Gentles

“D & N 2” is most striking at first glance for its packaging. Wrapped in some kind of “mysterious sebaceous animal fleece,” I frankly avoided having anything to do with this disc so as not to have to come into contact with the thick, wet smell of sheep’s (?)wool.
It’s a pity I left the CD and its animal fleece stewing on my shelf for such a long time, though, as this full-length debut of the collaboration between Nevada Hill and David Lee Price, both of Zanzibar Snails, is delightfully, ahem, earthy.
A rustic, outdoorsy vibe prevails throughout the disc. The sound is very dense and multilayered, a quality that presumably owes something to its mixing method, in which after it was recorded and mixed the first time, the mix was cut in half and the two halves were placed on top of each other. As a result the disc is never without a busy moment, but never without a dull one either. This is improvisational stuff very much in the vein of other woodsy experimenters such as No-Neck Blues Band or Sunburned Hand of the Man. A variety of unsettling, fractured sources of percussion come and go, as do mournful and quite beautiful melodica drones and some acoustic guitar. All of which is softly undergirded, a lot of the time literally but definitely spiritually, by the lonely sound of rain falling on a tin roof – perfectly evoking the North Texas landscape where it was recorded.
They got a 9/10 from Foxy Digitalis, and this is very good, so why not.
9/10

D & N 2

D & N 2 is the full length debut from the collaboration between Nevada Hill and David Lee Price of North Texas improv/drone collective Zanzibar Snails that continues to define and redefine the concept of Home. The follow-up to the well-received (9/10 from Foxy Digitalis) D & N 3-inch from 2007 on Mayyrh that was recorded (natch) at each members’ home.

As for the D & N 2CDr, the process of recording an album outside in the middle of Nowhere, Texas is described by the screen-printed text on the vellum sleeve (below)



Keywords for D & N 2 include “pitter-patter”, “somber cricket-infested paens,” “juvenile racketeering,” “tin roof rustic,” and “beh!”
As for the presence of the mysterious sebaceous animal fleece surrounding the disc, Price says only the following:
“It was so dark that I could only see the small area illuminated by my flashlight. Through the darkness I could feel the presence of the sheep, and the anger with him.”
9 tracks, 39 minutes. Ltd. Ed. 100, screen printed by Nevada Hill

$8 postpaid U.S.

New clips

Here's a couple of new YouTube clips from a show we played in Austin, TX in March

Some of the audio will appear on our new release, Vitiligo, on Tape Drift

The lineup is Michael Chamy, Nevada Hill, David Lee Price and Seth Sherman

The projections you see are from the great Denton-to-Austin transplant Paul Baker

Caves video clip added

See the below post!

JOURNEY INTO AMAZING CAVES!

Journey Into Amazing Caves! CD + DVD
2009, Mayyrh Records MYH06

Two discs, one audio, one video montage by David Lee Price with a separate Zanzibar soundtrack. LIMITED EDITION of 100 in a vellum sleeve, screen printed by Nevada Hill

AUDIO:
1. Journey Into Amazing Caves! 20:10
2. Journey Into Amazing Caves (epilogue) 2:57
3. Gilded Stars & Garters 6:43
4. Journey Into Amazing Caves (Pepth Derception) 23:14

Recorded in Hurst, Denton & Austin, TX 2006-2007
Produced by Michael Chamy

An ebbing series of hypnotic fjords that whisper, banter & barter, commingle, converge & break apart, pile up and explode.
Michael Chamy & Nevada Hill w/ guest spots from Chicago-based saxophonist Mike Forbes, and Austin's David Lee Price, who re-imagines the epic opener in flashback form.




“At first it kinda reminded me of Xenakis’ electronic stuff or Conrad’s darker synth stuff, but then it went into this avant guitar drone jam like if Earth and AMM had a baby ….” – our friend Tiago



VIDEO:
Carbage Goma
A visual transmission by David Lee Price
Soundtrack by Zanzibar Snails recorded live in Denton, TX on 9/29/2007
26:50


Please hit the HQ button on this; it comes across a lot more clearly

A hallucinatory montage by David Lee Price titled “Carbage Goma,” with Zanzibar Snails producing the soundtrack. The audio is taken from a live performance by a five-piece lineup feat. Price, Seth Sherman & Josh McWhirter ... a chanting, clattering cry for help giving narrative to Price’s shifty, swirling ode to the primeval takeover of a technocratic society by a battalion of mutated Hervay Villachaize clones & his pet cadre of mutant wombat larva sporting oversized women’s sunglasses.

Audio 4 tracks, 53 minutes
DVD 26 minutes-plus


$10 postpaid U.S.

Vanadium Dream out this summer ... future releases too!

Due to a more adventurous artwork gameplan, featuring a fold-out poster, the Zanzibar Vanadium Dream release on Phantom Limb Recordings has been pushed back to June or July. It'll be worth the wait.

In other ZanziNews, the Snails will be performing at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton on Saturday May 24 as part of the Denton Deluxe 2-night fest curated by the divine Strawberry Fields video and record store responsible for the Denton Deluxe compilations. We're also excited about a pre-show recording session featuring players from the likes of Shiny Around the Edges, Dokodemodoa, and Dust Congress.

There is also a MAYYRH release due in the Fall, this one an inner-ear CD/DVD combo dronescape tentatively titled Journey Into Amazing Caves! featuring a visual cornucopia into the mind's spleen by Zanzibar's Southern Division art director, David Lee Price.