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Goaty Tapes present a third volume of lost Darrell DeVore recordings, while also taking the opportunity to re-introduce editions of volumes one and two for those who didn't spot which way the wind was blowing first time around. If you know some of this stuff or none of this stuff, my response is the same: you need all of this stuff. The now late, former Pygmy Unit leader appears to have worked prolifically in solitude and with great focus, too, finding alluring intersecting spaces in the overlap of fourth (or is it fifth?) world electronics, ethnomusicological investigations, and psychedelic/free musics. Three, like One and Two, is simultaneously strung out, highly informed and beautifully unmoored, what DeVore himself labeled 'sound magic', the kind of term I'd usually prefer was kept exclusive to the language of ayahuasca treatment rituals but actually does feel appropriate in capturing just how oddly enchanted these privately conceived sonic explorations are. Fans of Roberto Musci, Jon Hassell, K, Leimer and Laaraji in need of something a little more alien would do well to check in here, a privilege for which we must be pay thanks to the ever restless digger instincts of Goaty Tapes. Strange to think, like with so much homemade music of this nature, that we'd otherwise have no knowledge of its existence. Like with DeVore's own outer-world instincts, these recordings deserve to travel far.
FFO: Roberto Musci, Jon Hassell, Pygmy Unit, K. Leimer, Laaraji
