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Hyperreality

by Simulacrum

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    Review by Darren Bergstein, Downtown Music Gallery
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    SIMULACRUM - Hyperreality (Evil Clown 9277; USA) Unsure if pandemic isolationism’s been creatively kinetic to Evil Clown honcho Dave PEK, or the ‘unshackling’ from it this year’s been explosively inspiring, but damn if this release doesn’t tear the roof off the sucka. Gonna splay it right up front: this stuff absolutely kills. It will blow your mind, alter your perceptions, derange your senses, and upset all your categorical applecarts. Which is another way of saying that the good Mr. PEK and his illustrious cohorts have done it again. In addition to PEK’s gigantic array of sound-designers and noise-facilitators, Simulacrum the group consists of Bob Moores on a whole host of electronic gadgetry, guitars, distorto-pedals, handheld objects, and aural demystifiers, Eric Woods banging gongs and twiddlin’ knobs, William Middlemiss Jr also striking guitars and synthees, and the Reverend Grant Beale separating glitch from (solid) state, warping circuitry, drones, and feedback with secular gusto. This hour-plus extravaganza comes roaring right out of the gate and across its illustrious timespan simply takes no prisoners. The collective invent, morph, and travel the spaceways in an expansive, intergalactic trawl through a myriad of folded dimensions that manage to channel the most outré moments hard-won from King Crimson, Gong, and Merzbow, to the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Nurse With Wound, AMM, and some archaic, hauntological INA-GRM burn-out who took one lysergic lapdance too many. In any event, this slab's a hive-mind of wild, vivid propulsion, where sounds intersect, congeal, and blossom with a vast, molten power that appears to regenerate by the minute. Guitars the blush of Frippian crimson conjure memories of the man’s “Fracture”-ed landscapes. Electronics, birthed by synth, modules, and various other mysterious paraphernalia, twit, twirl, and entwine themselves in the guzz and girth like malevolent insects hastily building labyrinthine nests. All throughout, PEK’s charging horns, bells, and various elegant machineries bleat and blurt like bubbling lava breaking through the surface. What is astonishing on all levels is the fact that none of this, despite near-constant variations in complexion, volume, hue, and cry ever degenerates into atonal cacophony but somehow maintains an awesome, fearless power throughout, never the same yet somehow thrillingly cohesive. Give yourself in totality to this quintet of quan as they unleash their protoplasmic artform in all its gutbucket, earthshaking, cerebellum-crushing magnificence.
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    - Darren Bergstein, DMG
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    ---LINER NOTES BY PEK
    The pandemic forced me to focus on solo works for its duration. It was fun to explore the world of overdubbing and multichannel recording for a year or so, but I am more than ready to resume ensemble playing. When the hammer came down in March of 2020, Evil Clown had some great momentum recording a number of great projects in a few short months: Leap of Faith had just recorded Principles of an Open Future for Relative Pitch, Metal Chaos Ensemble had just recorded The Riddle of Steel, Turbulence had just recorded Friction Coefficients, and new ensemble Expanse had just recorded Main Sequence. All of these projects would have made great music during the last year. Now that we are coming back to a more normal world and I have started LIVESTREAMING shows from Evil Clown Headquarters, all of these projects are picking up again.
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    Another new project that was conceived at this time was Simulacrum. This new band is an offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble featuring 3 members PEK on all my stuff, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on space trumpet, guitar and electronics. To this core I have added Reverend Grant Beale on Guitar and electronics and Evil Clown newbie William Middlemiss Jr on guitar and electronics. Grant was frequently on Leap of Faith, String Theory and Metal Chaos Ensemble sessions for a few years, and then we didn’t seem him too much for a year or two before the virus. He travels in from Connecticut which takes over an hour even when there is no traffic. Will has played with both Eric and Bob previously in the Boston area band Fablegrazer, which is a long running and varied electronic improvisation unit.
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    There was a first set for this band on the book which was cancelled for the virus. The basic idea of this band is to increase the amount of electronics, to keep the ancillary percussion and loose the drum set, along with PEK and Bob holding down the horn parts. Even without the drums, this set tilts more in the noise direction than typical of Metal Chaos Ensemble. I am interested to see where this project goes as we continue. I like this session and I think you may too…
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    PEK Out – 7/12/2021
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Evil Clown 9277
Evil Clown Headquarters, Waltham MA
10 July 2021

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released July 12, 2021

. PEK - clarinet & contralto clarinet, tenor & bass saxophones, tarota, Christmas flute, spring boxes, chime boxes, [d]ronin, electric chimes, box bells, electric kalimba, lfo synth, theremin, korg ms-20, moog subsequent, prophet, syntrix, novation peak, gong, brontosaurus & tank bells, glockenspeil, crotales, almglocken, wood blocks, temple blocks, log drums, orchestral chimes, chimes, digital delay, looper
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. Bob Moores - Jackson electric guitar modded with extreme distortion circuit and kill switch, large bell pocket trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn with miked mutes through effects, mainstage, NLogPoly synth and ampkit on MacBook Air, Moog D emulator and Ampkit on iPad mini, multi-effects pedal, delay pedal and loop pedal, kracklebox electronic instrument, crank siren
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. Eric Woods - analog synthesis, chimes, gong, temple blocks
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. William Middlemiss Jr - guitar, microfreak synthesizer
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. Reverend Grant Beale - guitar, MXR analog delay, electro harmonix freeze pedal, handwired fuzz/glitch, Michael Rucci made 16 step sequencer and maximal drone, bastl made granular synth
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YouTube: youtu.be/1R3qZOujvHc
Evil Clown Album Page evilclown.rocks/simulr-hyperreality/
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Other recent Simulacrum sets
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Simulacrum – Archetypes (10/24/2023)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/archetypes
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEDHVjea0ak&t=1s
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-archetypes/
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Simulacrum – Mechatronics (12/5/2023)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/mechatronics
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdXBBhQkaA
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-mechatronics/
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Simulacrum – Shadows (10/24/2023)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/shadows
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=StGw7WJjVWU
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-shadows/
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Simulacrum – Mimesis (5/18/2023)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/mimesis
YouTube: youtu.be/5pgF4p_dU2k
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-mimesis/
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Simulacrum – Homunculus (1/25/2023)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/homunculus
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdaUMlH998k&t=68s
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-homunculus/
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Simulacrum – Nested Simulations (9/24/2022)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/nested-simulations
YouTube: youtu.be/TFylmxyknwU
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-nested-simulations/
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Simulacrum – Meditations on Reality (7/7/2022)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-on-reality
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k797EMN9KaM
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-meditations/
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Simulacrum – Reincarnations (6/4/2022)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/reincarnations
YouTube: youtu.be/JPaZzUj7pdg
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-reincarnations/
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Simulacrum – Semblance (2/2/2022)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/semblance
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIudK8TTs7o
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-semblance/
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Simulacrum – Phantasmagoria (12/2/2021)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/phantasmagoria
YouTube: youtu.be/oBaxoBh0keQ
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-phantasmagoria/
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Metamorphoses (11/4/2021)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphoses
YouTube: youtu.be/TE3S5xPJw8k
Evil Clown Album Page: evilclown.rocks/simulr-metamorphoses/
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Synesthesia (9/2/2021)
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/synesthesia
YouTube: youtu.be/xpvwGt6vs8U
Evil Clown Album Page evilclown.rocks/simulr-synesthesia/
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Hyperreality (7/10/2021)
YouTube: youtu.be/1R3qZOujvHc
Evil Clown Album Page evilclown.rocks/simulr-hyperreality/
bandcamp: simulacrum3.bandcamp.com/album/hyperreality

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The newest Evil Clown ensemble features heavy electronics, guitars, orchestral percussion and horns. The Evil Clown aesthetic focused on electronics and bent in a noisy direction...

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