Heligator

GIANT CLAW – ‘SOFT CHANNEL NO. 1’
“It sounds like therapy for a generation who grew up with the internet, where the density and modularity of music has flourished at such a rate that we never get time alone with just one song or idea anymore.” – Adam Devlin, Tiny Mix Tapes. The tendency to treat Giant Claw’s music like a clown-car of impossible ideas of horizontal importance is to miss the cohesiveness of Giant Claw’s output and albums, even if that palate is as big and ever-expanding as…well, the internet. On This track donated by the Columbus, Ohio musician we find Giant Claw tackling extreme modes. Swinging from the playfulness of the synthesized oboe and the cultural significance of punctuating beats with a gunshot. Except this isn’t punctuation. The gunshot kills the track right as it reaches its zenith. Literally. But, in experimental music, unlike American lives, there are second acts and infinite lives. Like all Heligator releases all proceeds go to the Malindza Refugee Camp Library in Swaziland, Africa. There has been some turbulence at the camp, your donations help keep open a library (and pay the stipend of a librarian) that is an oasis of stability and hope in the otherwise turbulent life of a refugee.

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