Prefuse 73 The Only She Chapters on 2LP
Prefuse 73 songs have always existed in the form of highly detailed and evolved built-toscale symphonies. However, with The Only She Chapters, Guillermo Scott Herren takes an even more exploratory approach to his methodical chaos. An impressive cast of contributors and unique recording process have helped form a body of music far closer in scope to the most esteemed modern compositional works rather than a record built fundamentally around beats and loops.
As the sounds within took shape, so did a defined female influence and unifying presence. Says Guillermo, "The process features all women vocalists and voices and the music was recorded very differently from how I normally work." The vocalists here include Zola Jesus, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, Angel Deradoorian and the late Trish Keenan of Broadcast amongst others, all offering their entirely distinct textures and incantations to the already unorthodox musical tapestry and the idea of the albums, female symbol has extended to collaborators on the visual front as well, enlisting illustrator Yuko Michishita and photographer Angel Ceballos.
In addition to the unique approach in galvanizing likeminded contributors (including the "sequencing and eliminating" guidance of friend and collaborator Tyondai Braxton), the musical method employed is remarkable as well, using contact microphones most often used to record hollow bodied classical instruments, but in this case used for much more, including piano, prepared guitars, woodwinds and cellos on most of the songs. When meshed with the arsenal of electronics, it embellishes the acoustic sounds with vibrations created from the acoustic instruments in tandem with the female vocals at hand.
Prefuse 73 The Only She Chapters Track Listing:
1. The Only Recollection Of Where Life Stopped
2. The Only Valentine's Day Failure
3. The Only Contact She's Willing To Give (ft. Faidherbe)
4. The Only Chamber Resolve
5. The Only Hand To Hold (ft. Shara Worden)
6. The Only Thief To Steal Tonality
7. The Only Trial Of 9000 Suns (ft. Trish Turner)
8. The Only Way To Find (ft. Nico Turner)
9. The Only Test To Score
10. The Only Boogie Down (ft. Niki Randa)
11. The Only Direction In Concrete (ft. Zola Jesus)
12. The Only Recollection Of How Things Change
13. The Only Guitar To Die Alone (ft. Adron)
14. The Only Serenidad
15. The Only Lillies And Lilacs
16. The Only Lillies And Lilacs Pt. 2 (ft. Faidherbe)
17. The Only Repeat
18. The Only Recycled Intro
