The Big Takeover has premiered the new music video for "Dig A Hole," by ex-Swans/ex-Cop Shoot Cop project This Wilderness. The track is an exclusive bonus track from the cassette version of BC35, the acclaimed album celebrating the 35th anniversary of Martin Bisi's Brooklyn studio where Bisi has presided over legendary recordings by artists from across the spectrum of rock, noise, hip-hop, and beyond – from Swans, Cop Shoot Cop, and Sonic Youth, to Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, and The Boredoms.
Watch This Wilderness' "Dig A Hole" video, here:
http://bigtakeover.com/news/video-premiere-dig-a-hole-by-this-wilderness
Buy the BC35 cassette now from Sleeping Giant Glossolalia:
https://sleepinggiantglossolalia.bandcamp.com/
Pitchfork describes BC35 as “a sonic embodiment of risk-taking, rule-breaking, and antithesis that celebrates the endurance of a man and a space tied directly to New York’s noise, art-rock, punk, free jazz, hip-hop, and alternative movements.”
The Big Takeover describes This Wilderness' "Dig A Hole" track as "baleful, defiantly exclaimed vocals" and "a grimy, cycling low-end guitar line."
Read more about Martin Bisi and BC35 here:
http://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2018/02/bc35-35th-anniversary-of-bc-studio.html
"The credits read like a who’s who of New York’s experimental underground: members of Swans, Sonic Youth, Pop. 1280, Parlor Walls, Live Skull, Cop Shoot Cop, Foetus, and many, many more... It’s a sonic embodiment of risk-taking, rule-breaking, and antithesis that celebrates the endurance of a man and a space tied directly to New York’s noise, art-rock, punk, free jazz, hip-hop, and alternative movements... Across 13 tracks, Bisi demonstrates—as a producer, engineer, and general facilitator of the avant-garde—what’s made his name familiar to liner-notes obsessives and New York noise nerds for three and a half decades. Showcasing the opaque, roaring, visceral sound he’s come to epitomize, BC35 acts as a totem to his enduring role in NYC’s rock mythos..."
–Pitchfork
"Thirty-five years ago, in an old factory space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, the producer and musician Martin Bisi established BC Studio, where he’s has been at the controls for underground classics such as Sonic Youth’s “Bad Moon Rising”and the Dresden Dolls’ self-titled debut. Fittingly, Mr. Bisi is honoring this anniversary with a righteous racket: first by releasing a compilation with bands he has produced, as well as some he put together and one that was resurrected for the occasion, and then by celebrating that album with those groups at clubs in Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia...The evening promises to be ear-splittingly glorious."
"The New York noise scene that emerged with and after No-Wave can feel like the story of Sonic Youth and its near-orbit, due to that band’s massive influence. But Downtown artnoise can as easily be understood by viewing Martin Bisi as a nexus... In early 2016, his Gowanus, Brooklyn studio, sort-of eponymously named 'BC,' had been in operation for 35 years, and to commemorate the milestone, a weekend-long series of performances took place in the facility..."
–Dangerous Minds
–The New York Times
"The New York noise scene that emerged with and after No-Wave can feel like the story of Sonic Youth and its near-orbit, due to that band’s massive influence. But Downtown artnoise can as easily be understood by viewing Martin Bisi as a nexus... In early 2016, his Gowanus, Brooklyn studio, sort-of eponymously named 'BC,' had been in operation for 35 years, and to commemorate the milestone, a weekend-long series of performances took place in the facility..."
–Dangerous Minds
Photo by Joan Hacker
