x-ray five: Jute Gyte - The Sparrow
One of the big ones. One-man black-metal band Jute Gyte's contribution to the Blue Tapes canon is less a BM record and more a wormhole opening to a universe where the very physics of music as we understand it operate fundamentally differently.
Billed at the time as an EP, there is an album's length of music across the two tracks - The Sparrow, presented as one-side of a single-sided, screenprinted LP; and Monadanom, available as an accompanying download.
The title-track is a searing piece of microtonal metal influenced by Gloria Coates as much as any badger-faced church-burner.
Monadanom is an even deeper, weirder proposition - an unheimlich instrumental that sounds like little else.
One of the most unique looking of our x-ray vinyl series, the single-sided LP looks like a strange eye where they lids are moths?!
Stark, minimal - offering few clues.
Still got copies of this one at the link above.
