Review: PAS - Flanked By Women and Pumpkins

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PAS -Flanked By Women and Pumpkins (Alrealon Musique)PAS (Post Abortion Stress) are “experimental soundtechnicians” from Brooklyn, New York, who were formed in 1995 and are led byRobert L. Pepper. For “Flanked By Women and Pumpkins” they’re joined AmberBrien, Michael Durek and Jon Worthley.
Recycling and reworking is at the heart of thematerial, the album having been conceived, formulated and informed by theirApril-May 2011 tour of Poland. Ideas were further developed and completed inthe studio, and on the impressive “Incredible Day For Natives” samples of animprovised jam with underground icon Philippe Petit were used.
PAS utilise a host of traditional instruments,samples, and available technology to produce an industrial cyberspace soundcollage featuring electronic ripples and oscillations, and remote tribalism andradio waves. As a whole, traditional song structures are quite well avoided,with the rare exception of the elegant atmospherics of “It Is Is It?” which hasan almost David Sylvian / Japan “Quiet Life” ring to it.
“Vacationing Beat” hits the same nerves as Suiciderepetitions, but is swept along by its pleasant post holocaustic windstorm.It’s the occasional inclusion of found bird song, children’s voices or spokenword sample that serves to naturalise or humanize the process.
Incidentally PAS and Alrealon Musique host theExperi-MENTAL festival 4 in New York (04-08 October), which includes anappearance by Invisible Sports, aka Aaron Moore of Leicester’s Volcano theBear.www.alrealon.co.ukwww.pasmusic.weebly.comWillsk