Following on from the recent release of All The Mirrors in The House (Home Recordings 1979 - 1986), reviewed by me here, there's yet another archival recording up from His Name Is Alive. 6Teen Ok, out now via cassette and (in a shorter form) download, serves up previously-unreleased Eighties-era music from Warren Defever.
Full of more languid and expansive music than what was on the All The Mirrors in The House (Home Recordings 1979 - 1986) set, this collection serves up tunes like "6teen Secrets" which reveal Defever's debt to Robert Fripp, and even Eno. "Sleep 6teen", for instance, sounds a whole lot like instrumentals on side two of David Sylvian's Gone to Earth, with Warren's guitar, like those of Fripp and Bill Nelson on that classic album, tracing notes that trail out into the void. "6teen Cheers", with its odd vocal samples, prefigures in the faintest way the kind of numbers that would end up on Livonia much later. Warren Defever here was moving beyond experimentation and staking out claims to the territory of minimalist musicians, while crafting what we would have called then the best possible sort of ambient music.
6teen Ok can be ordered here. The physical release contains longer, side-length mixes, while the digital version only has the three brief offerings I referenced above.
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