Brenton
AhmedSwarf Sisters
January 1st 2009 08:56
I had NOTHING to use related to the Swarf Sisters so please enjoy this unrelated image of LPs.
Swarf Sisters are a relatively unknown little bunch. As far as I know. Considering, you know that the last time I wrote an article about an artist using these such terms, he came out of retirement. (On a side note, my skill for affecting international persons of interest is not so positive; on the morning of Rosa Parks death I had made a speech about her; a bizarre synchrisity)
Ignoring this curious tangent, the Swarf Sister did disappear, before their album was even released. The story goes that the group formed and stuffed around trying o get an album recorded and released. Really nothing got done – everyone argued and could come to no kind of decisions of any kind, each instead dropping off to work on personal projects. Eventually with all possibility of an actual release all but doomed, member Swarf stepped up to the challenge, and the CD was released. The resulting piece of music was deeply curious, in it’s variety of musical styles.
The genre is hard to define. The opening song is a piece of heavy techno, and such songs appear throughout the album, one in the middle, one at the end. Songs number 2 (Sand in My Face) and 6 (Sunflowers) are fairly credible pieces of dark depressing trip-hop. The third song gives us a gentle acoustic piece. Then, just when we think we’re getting an idea of what they’re about we get a spoken word piece written by Patti Smith in the middle. Towards the end we also get Beverly – a Circus polka type song, and then we finish off with a soft Jazz number which leaves us with a secret track of… more strange spoken word stuff.It's also incredibly British, which actually works to give it some kind of coheisivity.
I obviously like it, but that doesn’t make it flawless. The Sisters have some good ideas, but they tend to have one cool idea and just repeat it for ten minutes. So some songs are good for a few listens but grow old fast. However it’s certainly a pleasant little curiosity that’s worth a bit of your time.
The album can be found on ITunes under the new title of ‘Crass Moments in Twentieth Century Culture’.
As best as I can tell they are now still around in a more sophisticated Trance outfit known as Swarf.
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