un sperme qui meurt de froid en agitant faiblement sa petite queue dans les draps d’un gamin

(2000)

CD + MP3 – Cdn$6

AIFF – Cdn$3

CD in jewel case with hand silkscreen and metal wire.

by undo (Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge)

Instrumentation: microphones. Site: mouths.

Inaugural release by Squint Press.

•        narrow the field of research (1:44)
•        born of a wet dream and dead before morning (6:34)
•        weary of pleading an incomprehensible cause (7:19)
•        pas dans un ventre non plus (3:24)
•        avec un écoulement de menaces et promesses (12:02)
•        it would smack of bodysnatching (3:34)
•        quelques débris d’entendemen au milieu (4:48)
•        seize me by the horns (13:14)

Main page for undo here.

Review by Phil England for The Wire:

“[…] un sperme features recordings made entirely from inside the mouth. Though this information is not given on the sleeve, it is crucial in understanding these highly minimal explorations. The duo’s variations on the ‘microphone in the mouth’ theme (tape hiss on max, mumbled voices, sub vocal sounds, etc) are like so many shades of grey. Appropriately enough, the track titles are taken from Samuel Beckett’s The Unnameable. And the grey cover is something Beckett himself might have warmed to.”