Well what can I say here, Burning Witch is an all time favorite. My most obsessive record hunt (Completed). Then they re-release it all on a 2xCD. That's all good I prefer my 220g Rift, Canyon, Dreams to the plastic cd anyday. Back to this rip, this isn't Crippled Lucifer. This is a 3 song demo and 4 song live freebie card that came with the re-release. Thanks to Mr. Britts I had the live shit for a while. But the demo's...so fucking good. It's cool to hear different recordings of your favorite BW tracks, these are well produced, non Albini, Towers era songs. Don't get me wrong, Albini is brilliant, love the way he makes a drum kit sound, but it's killer to hear a loud Bell toll in just the right spot on Tower Place, a spot 3:24 in where it doesn't toll on the record. Ill. Also the moans in Sea Hag are sooo fucking melancholic and spooky. It makes ya feel like a Burning Witch Sonic Ritual should....like a sonofabitch drowning in a cosmic sea on the edge of reality. Edgy sounds a bit different, but great none the less. The Live tracks, recorded in Seattle in 96, are nothing to push to the side. Prime cuts played a bit faster seemingly to fit in the last gem. An unreleased (as far as I can tell) song called Jubilex. This is good shit. Period. Here is the track listing, the link follows that.
1) Country Doctor Demo
2)Tower Place/ Sea Hag Demo
3)Sea Hag Live
4)Country Doctor Live
5)Bleeder Live
6)Jubilex Live
*Best enjoyed with a clean glass piece stuffed with G13 (goverment Rx)
2 comments:
Scoopin this shit right NOW
Cool, man. Funny to stumble on your post 4 1/2 years after you put it up & about 17 years(??) after the demo was recorded. I was the recordist of the demo/had been the drummer in Edgy's previous band (JunkHalo). The BW demo remains one of my favorite projects that I've ever had the privilege to work on. It was done in one day at Private Radio Recording in the Fremont/Ballard area of Seattle. Band live to 1", 16track analog tape with Edgy's vocals overdubbed. The tape machine meters pretty much constantly pegged in the red :) The sub-bass from Stu's rig was un-fekn-believable. Our landlord HATED us from this day on-- the landlord (and the band and I) really did think that the building might collapse... at moments like the sustained note bends in 'Sea Hag', I could see the double-layered glass doors wobble and flex... the amps were hitting the resonant frequency of THE WHOLE BUILDING. It was glorious. So glad that the demo lives in fond memories. -Dubh David Black
Post a Comment