Hafler Trio "How to Slice a Loaf of Bread (lengthwise)" 3xCD #113 of 500 copies

Description: Here we have a provocative morass of sound from one of the great experimental music alchemists of our time, Andrew McKenzie aka THE HAFLER TRIO: How to Slice a Loaf of Bread (lengthwise), a triple-disc CD set released in an edition of 500 hand-numbered copies in 2004 by the Phonometrography label. This set (a companion of sorts to the previous year’s similarly packaged How to Slice a Loaf of Bread), this is the soundtrack to an event held at the University of Central Lancashire's St. Peter's Arts Centre in Preston, Lancashire on May 2, 2003. Packaged in an oversized card sleeve with inserts, foldout booklet, folio of photographic prints and the three discs mounted on heavy card stock, this is an object of beauty that will dazzle the serious H3O devotee. One suspects that living in Iceland has helped to shape some of these sounds, as the one word that comes to mind when listening to How to Slice a Loaf of Bread (lengthwise) is "glacial." These three discs have a frosty, looming quality with complex layers built up beneath a seemingly minimal surface, radiating a deeply meditative quality which, when given the proper attention, can result in a marvelous inner journey for the willing listener. The 500 issued copies of How to Slice a Loaf of Bread (lengthwise), sold out almost immediately, making this one of the Trio's most sought-after prizes. (Indeed, opening and sifting through the visual and sonic delights of this set is not far removed from exploring a treasure chest.) All three discs and the packaging are in flawless shape. Track listing Disc 1: I Saw Someone Listening/I Gave The Game Away (58:24) Disc 2: I Met Someone (1:09:19) Disc 3: I Am Here (31:41) How to Slice a Loaf of Bread press release The Hafler Trio began wandering through the dark but playful backwaters of primarily sound based, wilfully disorientating artistic misinformation some time in the mid-1980s, and the journey continues still. With little idea of, or concern for, ultimate destination - not because the (course of the) work is without clarity or focus, but because it draws from and is readily influenced by shifting zeitgeist - yet plenty of distractions (and the hafler trio are nothing if not distracting), plenty of neglected aspects of the everyday conjuring fresh perspectives along the way, this becomes purposeful strategy. Despite being built on an openly acknowledged supposed illusion - the hafler trio is rarely more than Andrew McKenzie, a singular individual with a fascination for the numerical - little else about it is, or has been so readily quantifiable. Yet it has been imbued with a sense of purpose throughout that may have eluded the empirical but never the objective, and has remained constant through close to 20 years and all manner of altered circumstance and perspective. With McKenzie now based in Iceland, live appearances from the hafler trio have become increasingly infrequent, with the few that are embarked upon consisting entirely of material conceived and developed purely, and exclusively, for that location at that time. It is more than site specific, it is temporally precise, and it is the imposition of such constraints that lends all of McKenzie's work a universality that is unparalleled in contemporary sound. It is with a rationale that is at once both literal and oblique that the hafler trio approaches its first, and to date only scheduled performance of 2003 at the University Of Central Lancashire's St. Peter's Arts Centre in Preston, Lancashire on Friday May 2nd. The nature and form of the performance, titled "how to slice a loaf of bread" will be shaped and inspired by a combination of pre-determined, seemingly disparate statements that McKenzie has already formulated, and have shown themselves worthy of, and able to sustain, exploration. Ideas thrown up by, amongst other things, interviews (both real and imaginary), plus question and answer sessions scheduled for the weeks preceding the performance will conspire to augment and/or distort these statements and so the main event itself. It was with a sense of paralleling one of the foundations upon which "how to slice a loaf of bread" is built, and the contemporary tendency to reduce complex issues to a series of frequently banal questions and answers Andrew McKenzie agreed to answer a short series of queries put to him in an attempt to further clarify the hafler trio's intentions for the performance. These questions, and Andrew's answers follow. Q: "how to slice a loaf of bread". What's it all about? A: the higher blending with the lower to actualise the middle. Q: When and where does it take place? A: Preston, Lancashire, in a few places, spreading out from a central hub. may 2nd. Q: What is likely to happen? A: three locations will be linked by seven processes. work will be done. resonances will be sounded. Q: Why should we care? A: because I do. Q: What is the best thing since sliced bread? A: the conscious intention.

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