Browse by Artist: FLY PAN AM

Artist:	FLY PAN AM
Title:	Sedatif en Frequences et Sillons
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	CST 011CD

"Fly Pan Am return with a 3 song EP of fractured, tape infested motorik rock experiments sure to please fans and detractors alike, sharpening the ears of the former while the latter sharpen their knives. Sedatif en Frequences et Sillons, which roughly translates as 'grooved frequency sedative', is an intransigent slab of self-referential auto-criticism by our favorite young conceptualists. Love 'em or hate 'em, Fly Pan Am stick to their agenda of acutely self-conscious musical manipulations, examining their own materials and assumptions to yield new compositions of uncompromising formalism. Side 1 ('De Cercle en Cercle...') is a medley or sorts, consisting of phrases and fragments reconfigured and replayed from last year's debut 3 sided LP. Side 2 features 'Efferant/Afferant', a new piece of somnambulist clockwork repetition, with the band laying down a strict, static groove while various tape manipulations penetrate the mix to create polyrhythms, dissonances and additional textures."

Artist:	FLY PAN AM
Title:	Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vacu (?)
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CST 019CD

"Fly Pan Am sharpen their sonic and conceptual knives to shiny surgical points on this second full-length, having gradually moved from long, reverb-drenched repetition to concise, bone-dry repetition in their live shows over the past couple of years, these new songs are marked by a full embrace of stuttering, fucked-up, funk. The result is a tightly-wound record that frequently seems to pop its own springs. The group is serious about their Krautrock, but about a great many other things as well, whether New York circ. 1980, Afro-beat, or musique concrete."

Artist:	FLY PAN AM
Title:	N'Ecoutez Pas
Label:	CONSTELLATION (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	CST 031CD

"Le Fly Pan Am is one of the founding bands on the Constellation roster, and perhaps the most confounding group on the label. N'Ecoutez Pas contains the band's most intense sounds yet; while each side of the record is anchored by a long, non linear piece juxtaposing the band against tape and electronic treatments, a number of other tracks are the closest the group has come to traditional rock/pop structures, with 'chorus' breaks, melodic 'hooks' and vocals. Of course, being Fly Pan Am, all of this is duly bracketed -- there is nothing traditional about the results and the various elements are pushed forward or pulled back in anything but conventional ways. These are careening, carnivalesque tunes that somehow wed the browns and pinks of FSA-style guitar washes with yéyé pop, Boredoms noise incantations and hardcore punk."

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