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Artist SOME PIG [Hart - Diaz-Infante]
Title (Almost All Of) SOME PIG [2001-2003 digital]
Label bhh stuff - - bbhstuff.bandcamp.com
Released On 3/20/2002
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SOME PIG was:
Ernesto Diaz-Infante: voice/objects/violin/guitar/etc
Bret Hart: guitar/Casio SK5/percussion/sounds

From Aural Innovations #19 (April 2002)

"Some Pig is a collaboration between creative avant-improv guitar masters Bret Hart and Ernesto Diaz-Infante. Though recorded in the same year, Templeton and Wilbur are each very different from one another.

While there's plenty of guitar on Templeton to satisfy fans of Bret's and Ernesto's guitar works, the project is also heavy on electronics, vocals, and voice samples, some of the vocals implying that the duo set out to make a freaked out avant-garde folk album. The space factor is high on this set, though there's nothing meditative about it. Sometimes it sounds like a cosmic avant-garde chamber ensemble. At others I felt like I was listening to some liquid lysergic Rugrats soundtrack. At any rate, the duo kick the freaky meter into high gear from start to finish as they crank out six tunes assembled in a sonic collage style.

We hear avant-improv guitar strums and attacks, quirky frenetic electronic percussion, freaky space electronics, and vocals... more