- 7inch
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Height/Dismay
Height/Dismay
Efficient Space - Cat No: ES024
- updated:2022-11-26
A reissue of rare material from Height/Dismay, from M Squared — a cult label among diggers of '80s Australian underground music, also featured on Efficient Space's "Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes And Archives 1980-1983," a survey of early-'80s Australia!
Height/Dismay were the M Squared studio-as-instrument duo of Patrick Gibson and Dru Jones. A member of Systematics and Scattered Order, Gibson was an integral part of the M Squared label and studio, where he met Jones. With an unapologetic misuse of instruments and ample time, the two sonic explorers scraped guitar strings, manipulated clarinets, and contact mic’d woks to layer their echo chamber apparitions.
Collating three 1981 recordings, the then-shelved ‘Blood Pressure In The Sand’ joins ‘Dusk’, their contribution to archetypal cassette-zine Fast Forward. Also unreleased, ‘The Tinning Test’ rejects formal lyrics in favour of a deadpan reading from the Australian Standard for tinned copper wire. The outsiders of the outside, these mutual minds’ productions have long been overlooked as crucial pieces of the Australian DIY music puzzle.
Collating three 1981 recordings, the then-shelved ‘Blood Pressure In The Sand’ joins ‘Dusk’, their contribution to archetypal cassette-zine Fast Forward. Also unreleased, ‘The Tinning Test’ rejects formal lyrics in favour of a deadpan reading from the Australian Standard for tinned copper wire. The outsiders of the outside, these mutual minds’ productions have long been overlooked as crucial pieces of the Australian DIY music puzzle.
Sydney post-punk from Patrick Gibson, Dru Jones, and Michael Prowse. Efficient Space presents a limited 7-inch of further rare material by Height/Dismay — pressed for a 1981 release on the legendary M Squared label (also connected to Severed Heads), but never properly issued due to pressing problems. Includes the long-unreleased "Blood Pressure In The Sand," recorded at M Squared's studio, "Dusk," contributed to a cassette magazine, and the unreleased "The Tinning Test." (Original Japanese text by Saito)