Handwriting (30th Anniversary Edition)＜限定盤/Silver Vinyl＞

RODANの JASON NOBLEとCHRISTIAN FREDERICKSON、ピアニストのRACHEL GRIMESを中心とするポストロック / ポスト・クラシカル・バンド、RACHEL'Sの1995年デビューアルバムがリリース30THアニヴァーサリーを記念してヴァイナル・リイシュー!
シカゴのスーパー・グループ、THE COCTAILSのJOHN UPCHURCH、MARK GREENBERG、BARRY PHIPPSやRODANのKEVIN COULTAS、そしてBOB WESTONらトリオが敬愛するミュージシャンたちを招集。コントラバス、ヴィブラフォン、ヴィオラ、チェロ、ヴァイオリンなど多彩な楽器を用いて、オルタナティヴロック、クラシックのみならずジャズまでをも血肉とした独創性豊かなデビュー作となっています。

Louisville, KY's Rachel's might record for the punk/noise label Quarterstick Records, but their ambitious blend of post-minimalist modern classical music and post-rock experimentalism (guests include ex-Volcano Suns bassist Bob Weston; ex-Rodan leader Jason Noble wrote several tracks with Grimes) has almost nothing at all to do with rock music. These seven pieces, recorded between 1991 and 1994, featuring a cast of 16 musicians in various combinations, range from the two-minute solo piano miniature "Frida Kahlo" to the chaotic fourteen-and-a-half-minute "Full on Night," which blends a full chamber orchestra with electric guitar and tape loops like a more sonically aggressive version of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Well-recorded and gorgeously packaged (as are all Rachel's albums), Handwriting is probably not to be recommended to the usual Quarterstick Records fan, but admirers of modern classical music will find much to enjoy. ~ Stewart Mason