Megabasse - Flamenca

Pierre Bujeau's Megabasse project debuts for Efficient Space with a three part collection containing both hard-to-locate older pieces and one entirely unheard composition. Hard-to-locate and unheard are words that seem to follow Bujeau's work around, which to date has mostly been the preserve of micro-release tapes and CD-rs, and lesser-spotted live performances. The purview tends to widen when a French artist turns up on an Australian label (and a very solid one at that in Efficient Space), but we nonetheless remain on slippery terrain, Bujeau's double-necked guitar playing a thing of unexpected, glacial beauty, an almost komische-like rendering of ambient drift that might well translate as an Manuel Gottsching/Andrew Chalk collab - cosmic folk-drone with its controls set for the heart of the sun that never seems to set. The repetitive chimes of the hard-to-look-past 22 minute opener, 'L'Ultimo Sacrifacio' also evoke the dulcimer-led work of Dorothy Carter or the homemade steel guitar sound of Michael O'Shea, another two previously 'hard-to-locate' artists who were good at communicating ineffable ideas via subtle gestures and a unique slight-of-hand. If Bujeau's work continues to encourage such associations, the net of interest will undoubtedly be cast a good deal further
 
 
FFO: Ash-Ra/Gottsching, Andrew Chalk, Turner Williams Jr., Dorothy Carter, Michael O'Shea