.THE REBEL –sophie and b. r. wallers–
.THE
REBEL (ex country teasers/wet dog): the fall / wire / kevin ayers / folk-blues
/ residents / syd barret / swell maps / daniel johnston / country teasers...,
y todo lo bonito/a
.THE REBEL son sophie (batería) y ben r. wallers (guitarra/voz/sintes y game boy
.NOTA: los dibus que aparecen más abajo son de ben
.Desde
Londres, el cerebro aberrado de Country
Teasers presenta su proyecto para-anormal de pop borracho y
countryfolk ácaro (the
rebel) que recuerda a los momentos más
desequilibrados de unos Derribos Arias, o a un Kevin Ayers
pasado de Don Simón.
COUNTRY TEASERS Lp's:
* Country
Teasers 10"/CD (Crypt,
1994)
* Satan Is Real Again LP/CD (Crypt,
1996)
* Destroy All Human Life CD (Fat
Possum, 1999)
* Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire
2xLP/CD
(In
The Red, 2002)
* Full Moon Empty Sportsbag LP/CD (In
The Red, 2003)
COUNTRY
TEASERS FOTOS
UNOFFICIAL
FAN SITE
***
The first solo B.R. Wallers stuff I've heard, and I like it. I had always
been a fringe Country Teasers fan until the past couple of years when
everything just clicked all of a sudden, sometime around when the double
LP on In the Red came out.
This collection from the Rebel is similar in sound/vibe to the last Teasers
LP, yet even looser and weirder. Lots of twisted
electronics, dimestore Casio sounds, some guitars and
whatever else all thrown in the pan and pressure-cooked in the
oven that is Wallers' mind. Four tracks that veer from the simply bizarre
to mind wrenching melancholy, with a sound that falls somewhere in the
vicinity of the Swell Maps most experimental moments, obscure British
DIY lunacy, The Fall, outsider art, and just about any closet four-track
recording weirdo you can think of, especially those that loathe the music
industry (and most other things as well). Subtly brilliant. Perfect for
those moments when you've just arrived home at 5:30 in the morning, and
you're sitting there wondering just what it is that you've done.
Rich Kroneiss / Terminal Boredom
Ben Wallers of Edinburgh,
Scotland's Country Teasers goes
solo on this slapped together, four-tracked slab of wax. It's as politically
flippant as the Fall and as anti-hi-fi as the Beat Happening. Somewhere
in the middle lies finicky, fuzzy, electro sounds backed with pots'n'pans
type banging. Maybe if White Hassle was more punk than alterna-Americana,
or if Doo Rag was more electro clash than being just plain weird, it would
sound like this. Wallers's voice matches the song content, so when you
get to a song like "Please Ban Music", expect more beat-poet
groan than Britpop croon.
The Rebel is exactly that, rebelling against the modern sound of mainstream
music (even Beck gave up his junky noise collages years ago) and throwing
out some social commentary that's been missing in music for a while now.
Clearly this 7" falls into the category of "outsider music",
a genre not really defined by its sound but by its artists, self-proclaimed
or not. The Rebel (along with the above mentioned, and Wesley Willis,
Daniel Johnston, et al) fall right in with the "outsiders",
making music geared towards those who declare music more as a work of
art than as a sing-along dance party. This will appeal to any music nut
that enjoys strange music not for the sake of it being strange, or for
it being novelty (that's not the aim of outsider musicians), but for the
sake of its own mysterious existence in the first place.
Mark Hughson / Now Wave Magazine
The Country Teasers
have made some real purty records over
the years. Now the leader of their tribe, Ben Wallers, has
released his debut solo single, as The Rebel. Exciting New
Venue For Soccer And Execution of Women (SDZ 7") has a feel
not unlike some of the tunes of The Rebel's home planet. It's a kind of
roots investigation taken sideways into the territory of the early K Recs
minimalists or others of that ilk. Which I guess means that it also really
sounds sort of a cassette-era in a way.
And hey, maybe that's a good thing. Regardless, The Rebel's
sound will certainly jack into the brains of those with a taste for such
makers of good works as Dan Johnston and his many kith.
Byron Coley / The Wire
