"The Curious March Of The Goat Faced" by Dylan Nyoukis
A collage, inspired by some recent travels. Mostly recordings made in (and of) Bremen, Berlin, Moers, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Gerlesborg and Brighton, with a few small dips into the 'archive'. All sounds and recordings by Dylan Nyoukis with these exceptions buried in the piece somewhere: Chris Corsano plays footpump, Leena Setzepfand & Michael Hohendorf sweep up, Holger Lauster takes the art of 'soundman' to new levels, Daniel Löwenbrück shakes his inner 'ethnic', Elkka Reign Nyoukis supplies some vocals and Karen Constance supplies some tapes.
Prick Decay's 2001 album, Guidelines For Basement Non-Fidel, has long been regarded as one of the founding documents of the new weird century, alongside Harry Pussy's "Smash The Mirror" and Sun City Girls Torch Of The Mystics. Nyoukis's early material paralleled international developments in post-noise syntax but his approach has become increasingly sophisticated while still retaining a refusenik energy, interrogating sound-poetry and musique concrete strategies while always working outside of their inherited strictures.
His current group, Blood Stereo, is a duo with his wife, the musician and artist Karen Constance, that explores hand-cranked 20th century technology in combination with epiglottal gymnastics and free music modes inherited as much from punk rock's mutilated aesthetic as utopian art styles. His solo vocal and tape work continues to push the envelope in terms of the expressive options offered by amplified physicality while his rejection of any kind of theoretical backdrop liberates him from servitude to any specific agenda. He remains a singular voice. Over the years he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Ludo Mich, Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sun City Girls, Bill Nace, Heather Leigh Murray, Phil Minton, Neil Campbell, Usurper and Wolf Eyes. He lives in Brighton, England.
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