Name: The Labyrinth Of The Straight Line
Brand: Cindytalk

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emego219

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Limited edition

Release date

2016-12-09

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Kudos

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Cindytalk

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New Wave / Post Punk

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Editions Mego

Formed in 1982 in Edinburgh, Cindytalk is an experimental music project led by Cindy Sharp. Originally formed by Cindy Sharp and David Clancy from the remnants of Scottish punk band The Freeze, Cindytalk has since collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Cocteau Twins, Kathy Acker, and Chris Connelly. Their ever-shifting lineup incorporates sampling, musique concrète, and electronics alongside disintegrating rock structures. With releases on labels such as Midnight Music and Editions Mego, Cindytalk continues to push boundaries within their fluid experimental framework.

Cindytalk's sound is hard to categorize due to their incorporation of various genres and styles. Their work spans across sampling, musique concrète, electronics, and more traditional rock structures. Led by Cindy Sharp as the only consistent member of the group's changing lineup over the years, Cindytalk consistently delivers live performances and regular releases that captivate audiences.

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Editions Mego was founded on January 1st, 2006 by Peter Rehberg. The label's main goal is to preserve the legacy and catalog of the now defunct Mego label, while also releasing new and innovative works.
With a focus on experimental music and sound art, Editions Mego has become a leading force in the industry. They are known for their commitment to pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories.
Whether you're a long-time fan or just discovering their unique offerings, Editions Mego offers a diverse range of releases that will captivate and challenge your musical sensibilities.

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The Labyrinth of the Straight Line is a compilation of chimerical poetry. Ambiguous haikus of agony, melancholy, obscurity and dissensus are unfolding over time. Walking on the shapeshifting paths of transgression, on the search for new realities since the early 1980's, Cindytalk's latest release pays hommage to their industrial roots, comprising brutalist outbursts in abstract sceneries of beauty and abysmality. As surreal and introspective as a film by Jean Cocteau, as labyrinthic and enigmatic as a story of Borges, Cindytalk succeeds in spatializing subjectivity. These introverted detournements follow the logic of dreams and form the unsettling soundtrack of an unresting mind. The outcome can be abrasive and balearic at times, but also delicate and melancholic. 'The Labyrinth Of The Straight Line' forms an alphabet of dark and obscure detachment. Acid shivers of a body without organs and convulsive pumps of arteries alternate with poignant murmurs of the past that dissolve in tender shades of hushed despair and graceful debris. We find ourselves in spaces with walls crumbling down or concaved by glazed mirrors terrorizing the claustrophobic body. From time to time we can hear a disembodied voice, speaking soft and clear like a narrator from a different reality. Sonic psychogeography between somnambul dark ambient, claustrophobic post-industrial and nightmarish techno. Delightful sketches of escatology.Written and recorded by Cindytalk between 2013-2015 at Roi Vert, Okamoto, Japan and Thirteenth Floor, London, UK Film clips on Sea Of Lost Hopes, Lost Unfound and Filthy Sun: Ghost Dance (UK 1983), directed by Ken McMullen Design/images: David Coppenhall. In praise of The Invisible College.

The Labyrinth Of The Straight Line

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