MCCLURE AND WHYTE - FARMING

Farming by Wm. B. McClure and D'Oliver Whyte is poetry and sound resting beyond the nexus. The following text is a plain and simple descriptive card house building by me, the only word chunderer for LIASOS. My best thoughts to depiction only turns a spotlight towards true art and beauty. Mr. McClure illustrative verse describes scenes from a farm. At times the portrayal seems cynical, a current of underlying disdain flaring up for the farm. "We the cattle" is an example of this, animals led to slaughter and their personified thoughts permeating within. There is also a feeling of sadness, "This life" telling the story of equipment deteriorating away, a farmer who vanished in the track "Fields", and the longest track "Meat your mother". I guess the sadness is intertwined with the accepted gruesomeness of every death death taking place on the farm. Amazingly for each of these selections, D'Oliver Whyte creates an astounding mini soundtrack for the stories McClure recites. Whyte's music and soundscapes peak with just a small of amount of sunshine then fall beneath the trampled bloody mud of everything eventually dying on the farm. These aural musings pair in perfect accord with the tone and subject McClure conveys. There are also a few selections like "Tractor" and "Cattle Shed" with no verse, only the sounds from the farm. To say McClure and Whyte balance each other is only the beginning of how both stories and music pair. Farming takes root in thoughts and manifests with a subtle heaviness. The interplay between McClure and Whyte create something so much more. A place where we truly feel the beauty and dread of life on a farm.  

Farming is released on a very limited cassette run of just twenty nine. The United Kingdom label is Longs Arm Artifacts and has a lot to explore in both music and art. The printing for the cassette cover was done at Bathtub printing, Bristol and i would suspect many of the available posters are from Bathtub printing as well.

 

Farming is a special composition holding a detailed complexity that requires a solid amount of attention to fully absorb. Fortunately we can listen to this repeatedly and help discover the level of beautiful creativity within.

 

 

Links

LONGS ARM ARTIFACTS - bandcamp