Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba ((Vinyl))

The vanguard of electronics in late-80s Europe was being

pushed by organizations like Nurse With Wound, The Hafler

Trio, HNAS and yet, when Christoph Heemann came across

this recording, it struck his ears and the ears of fellow listeners

like nothing before. Plux Quba was handed around between

the principles of the early 90s A-Musik scene: Jan St. Werner,

C-Schulz, Frank Dommert, Georg Odijk, plus interested fellow

travelers like Jim ORourke, to the intense curiosity of all. To ears

that were already saturated with all things kraut, the dark corners

of prog and the frontline of experimental and improvised music, it

proved elusive. Not simply in how it sounded and how that sound

was achieved, but in where it was coming fromlike later Rob-
ert Ashley at times; certain stretches of melody recalled some

of Enos ambient pieces but mostly, it was a completely alien

soundscape! And who was it? Was the band called Plux Quba?

The record? The label? These sorts of mysteries are at the heart

of records that require close listening and re-listening. As it was

absorbed, it grew to be an influence on the Kˆln soundMouse

On Mars, Lithops, and Heemanns many and varied projects

as well as ORourke, Fennesz and many others. Music and

sound of this nature have for many years been made available by

bands like Autechre, labels like Mille Plateauxbut for the first

ten years of its existence, Plux Quba was rarely heard.

ORourke reissued it as the first record on his Moikai label in

1998, and it had a good run through around 2005 before the last

of the print parts were filled. Its almost a decade since Plux Quba

was available, which is way too long considering that we live in

an era where it is NECESSARY to have an LP of this on hand for

your contemporary listening distractions. And so, Drag City has

stepped in to reissue the Moikai reissue of Nuno Canavarros

classic Plux Quba.

Format Detail: 1LP
Internal ID: JITRE
Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
Genre: Dance & Electronic