ROBERT AARON - Datura LP

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Original sealed copy. Highly recommended. "Datura's" whole look/spec reminds me of the contemporaneous Gregory Sablosky / Roy Jones "No Imagination" set - the mutant, gelatinous go ogle-eyed formation on the cover being indicative of just so much of the early 80s NY sleaze that formed around it - alas, the decidedly "Downtown" aggregate of duo synth-haze & the kinds of room-toned, loft-captured noise-improv shenanigans simultaneously being channeled by John Zorn et.al in neighboring spaces. There's something so incredibly singular about Aaron's SIEL - Societa Industrie Elettroniche - monosynth extrapolations; as far away from someone like Morton Subotnick's work as conceivable, favoring a more expressive, keyboard-fisted application of cross-hatching, sliding timbres that echo perhaps Sun Ra's diversions in decades prior moreso than Marty Rev & Alan Vega's direct assaults. Show more