ORCHESTRA OF CONSTANT DISTRESS ‘Distress Test’ LP & 'Abandon' Tape

artist: ORCHESTRA OF CONSTANT DISTRESS
title: Distress Test / Abandon
catalogue # REPOSELP064/SMR16
format: Vinyl LP & Cassette
UPC# N/A

'Distress Test' LP Tracklisting :

A1. Not At All (6:01)
A2. Just A Little (8:52)
A3. Somewhat (7:52)

B1. Moderately (6:49)
B2. Quite A Lot (9:54)
B3. Very Much (6:40)

'Abandon' Tape Tracklisting :

A1. Discard (5;27)
A2. Leave (5:24)
A3. Quit (9:05)

B1. Stop (6:18)
B2. Withdraw (4:50)
B3. Yield (8:56)

Limited edition 300 only black vinyl LP with companion cassette 'Abandon'. Full colour 350gsm reverse board printed outer sleeve with black paper inner bag and download code. Tape is on sister label (SMR16) and comes with white tape shell, printed cover in clear case (i have a total of 50 copies!)

Words:

ORCHESTRA OF CONSTANT DISTRESS Are :

Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts, iDEAL Recordings)
Anders Bryngelsson (Brainbombs, No Balls)
Henrik Rylander (The Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions)
Henrik Andersson

In the field of music or any contemporary cultural terrain, concepts like
development dynamics and progression are used as aesthetic judgement. To any
musician or composer, the idea of musical build up comes with a crisis, any
attempt towards formal pleasure calls for suspicion that this desire is
never one’s own.

In the case of Orchestra of Constant Distress this deadlock manifests itself
in an impulse of refusal directed against any evolution and the result is
the extreme generic and the absolute distress of normative noise and
improvisation. Members with such experiences from The Skull Defekts, Union
Carbide Productions, Brainbombs and No Balls are joined in assemblage of
catatonic sounds, obstinate riffs and rigid rhythms.

“Just when you think something is about to happen, it doesn’t.” Review of debut album.