"This LP captures the transcontinental collaboration between artists Mattin and Richard Francis with sounds recorded in Stockholm, Berlin and Auckland, NZ. The mixdown portrays the current state of affairs in improvised noise noise: filtered gritty sound blocks flow and float with no seeming direction when sudden breaks puncture the structure and create something like a melody. Well, almost. The music is accompanied by a text insert that documents a skype conversation between the two artists discussing the methods and aesthetics connected to this release and their ways of working in general."
Aufabwegen Press Release

Side 1. Lisa Says (24:39)
Side 2. Lisa Says (24:59)

Clear vinyl with insert, 300 hand-numbered copies.
Released by Aufabwegen in 2012.

REVIEWS

"A project in two parts, one the actual music, as recorded on July 3 2008 in Berlin and one the conversation as a piece of text from August 31 2011 in which Richard Francis and Mattin talk about the recording from three years before, about their methods of working together but also with others. A fascination they have in common is about white and pink noise, and sustaining those sounds. It’s an interesting text to read, as it clears up some interesting things but it’s not entirely necessary to read the text to like the music I should think. The buzzing, cracking and sustaining sound, which sometimes hoovers closely above the threshold of hearing, reminds the listener of your ventilator or heater buzzing, or the faint noises from afar late at night. If I understand right, this record is for Francis an end to the way he working and for Mattin the start of a new working method, a more conceptual approach if you will. This record contains some very minimal music, with very few sound elements, but are fascinating to hear. Crackles of vinyl (not from the pressing), field recordings very remotely humming and the white/pink noise slowly washing ashore and moving away. All of this in a very quiet and contemplating way. If you think Mattin is all about noise then you should surely try this record for a change. Maybe this is more what you would expect from somebody like Richard Francis, but this is a great improvised electronic record. Excellent head space music."
Vital Music (FdW)

"I love the idea of burying sounds beneath layers of noise, things seem to sound better to me." So sayeth the New Zealand sound artist Richard Francis in the transcribed conversation with the Basque conceptualist Mattin that serves as the liner notes here. Over the years, we've championed both of these artists with Mattin being perhaps best known (at least in these parts) for the monstrous Afro-noise / thud-rock of Billy Bao; and Francis being one of the most interesting modern-day minimalists from his island nation. For this project, Francis brings a his array of organically slippery electrical static to Mattin to recompose those sources into a malleable structure of crackling pink noise and swarming sibilance. The A-side builds in stepped ascents to a densely packed morass of texture, sounding like a multi-channel smashjob of one of those amazingly loud Michael Gendreau performances of run-out grooves on very old 78s. If Gendreau is too obtuse a reference, try Marclay or Jeck without any of the musical references or that long-forgotten Loren Chasse album Hedge Of Nerves composed entirely of vinyl crackle, fire, and bristling textures. Where the A-side is a dramatic, swollen tactile violence, the B-side is a contemplative drift of softened white noise caressing itself into near-emptiness and just at the edge of frequency audibility. As different as the two pieces are, the anchor of this buried texture and this buried noise provided by Francis is more than enough to ground this album. A very solid piece of tactile minimalism! Limited to just 300 copies."
Aquarius Records (California, 2015)