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ScornLogghi Barogghi

Label:

Scorn Recordings – SCORN CD3

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Illbient, Industrial, Experimental, Abstract

Tracklist

1Look At That
2Do The Geek
3The Next Days
4Spongie
5Out Of
6It's On
7Logghi Barogghi
8Black Box II
9Nut
10A Mission
11Pithering Twat
12Fumble
13Weakener
14Go
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Companies, etc.

  • Mixed AtThe Box (2)
  • Marketed ByEarache
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Earache
  • Copyright ©Earache

Credits

  • Created By, Mixed ByMick Harris
  • DesignInsatiable (3)
  • Photography ByAnthony Antonym Burnham*

Notes

Created December 1995 and January 1996

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 745316015828

Other Versions (5)

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
Logghi Barogghi (CD, Album)EaracheMOSH158CDEurope1996
Recently Edited
Logghi Barogghi (CD, Album, Enhanced)Scorn RecordingsSCORN CD3US1996
New Submission
Logghi Barogghi (2×12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Test Pressing, White Label)Not On LabelnoneUK1996
Logghi Barogghi (Cassette, Album)Metal Mind RecordsMASS 0365Poland1996
New Submission
Logghi Barogghi (14×File, MP3, Album, Reissue, 128 kbps)Not On Label (Mick Harris Self-released)none2000

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Reviews

  • phaks's avatar
    phaks
    Music is the Art in Time and here the Music lets stand still Time sometimes. Infinite grooves in empty spaces. For me one of his most pure minimal albums, an extreme dub experience.
    A vinyl edition would be fantastique !!
    • bonnicon's avatar
      bonnicon
      Stepping away from the formatted "Ambient Dub" which had been the SCORN lynch pin since their post-GODFLESH incarnation, the now-solo Mick Harris delves into the realms of unsettling, fragmentary rhythms. For a field of music which calls itself 'experimental', there are definite expectations among the people who listen to this music. The question should be asked - should an artist create for his (or her) public, or for h(er)(im)self. Should the artist go to the audience or vice versa. On this album MICK created for himself - stripping the sound down to a (deceptive) simplicity and concentrating on changes within the structure rather than 'music'. Which is probably why he got such an overall lukewarm reception from this point on in his SCORN career. The commerciality of previous albums is mostly absent here, with bassless rhythms stripped and naked. What replaces it is a tendency towards experimentalism which often seems to relect a strange sense of humour (the flatulent balloon-deflating noise which forms the centre of "Spongie"; the sudden unaccompanied singing of the title; the album title itself) which HARRIS had hitherto hidden in his myth building - humourless Brummie Isolationist be buggered - here is a man who loves the understated soft human humour of MIKE LEIGH films and finds amusement in the antics of his children and the family cat! (Sorry MICK, but I've gotta destroy this myth - it does you no good!). Hell, Brummies make you smile without even trying!
      But don't get the impression that he is any the less of a serious musician - since the split with BULLEN he has been getting up at the crack of dawn, travelling into the city (when his studio is not in his own home) and not coming back until the evening. Walk into the studio and you'll find him listening like a bird for a worm, trying to spot the glitch which - inaudible to you or me - is as intrusive as the pea in that fairy tale about testing a Princess.

      The humour (I feel) also extends to the playfulness of the drum programming - broken deliberately to confuse the listener in it's strange refusal to stick to 4:4 logic.

      And perhaps it's this lighter approach which won him some bad reviews - people were expecting the muscular persistant / insistant onslaught of "Silver Rain Fell" and it just wasn't going to happen. As mentioned earlier, this is an album you have to go to - it just isn't going to make things easy for the listener. I admit I had to work at it, but stick with it - it's a worthwhile journey, and makes for an album which will last for years, rather than an instant fix which wears off in all too short a while.

      And the ultimate joke? The title? As the artist who painted the cover I guess I have a certain licence to tell you. MICK overheard a couple of American tourists planning where to go the next day. "We'll visit Lie Sester, then drive on to Logghi Barogghi". Or to put it another way "We'll visit Leicester (pronounced Lester), then drive on to Loughborough (pronounced Luff Buhruh)". Gems like this are too good to miss - unless of course you are a humourless Midlands musician.

      Point made?

      Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.
      • soulsoleilnice's avatar
        Edited 12 years ago
        A master piece from Scorn, as is allready writing. But I think the album is a bit long, like many album of electonic music.
        Otherwise it's very well conducting especially in the psycho-acoustic way, your ears can have a rest between tracks. Alternance of heavy dynamic and pianissimo or long fade out.
        That the reason why is a masterpiece and Scorn is a great composer.
        • ClearDay's avatar
          ClearDay
          There's also a Double Vinyl TP ltd. to 10 copies. Maybe someone who knows how to likes to add this.

          And YES, it's one of his best 90's releases!
          • cab's avatar
            cab
            i think this is the best mick harris album from the middle of the 90's. Dark, Minimal and Agressive in a perfect combination.

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