Supermarché by Run Dust
Run Dust aka Luke Calzonetti is a 36 year old New Yorker living in Germany. Once a fashion model and deranged grindcore singer, Run Dust is now our best and most polyvalent new musical partners this year. After our successful release of his debut LP in March 2015, we started collecting some of his new material pumped out in his typical hyperactive fashion. In a quick minute, we ended up with a whole new album that sounded even more accomplished with the addition of twelve original paintings alongside them – a talent he had kept secret, even if the presence of a man by the name of Albert Oehlen aka Wendy Gondeln on violin (on “Almonster’s Voice”) could have been a hint.
Some days electronic music sounds like a dead language and then Luke sends over tracks and this sensation vanishes. His music is sometimes a bit silly, often very smart, but it’s always activating deeper and incongruous zones of our psyche. Run Dust's music picks a fight with electronic music and knocks around various materials without losing sight of a crucial pulse. Everything goes; from waste-noise to radioactive jingle-esque melodies - always in a precarious equilibrium between outsider art and brutal propaganda.
Repetitive, restless and subtly alluring, these miniature songs thrill us as they threaten to always change courses due to some bizarre dub effect, a reverb or an echo that comes off working as a trap. Run Dust makes the whole world of angst and fantasy enter the home studio: cartoon monsters screaming out, micro-electronic gadgets for mass surveillance, a fanfare of kitchenware and screeching toys which he arranges with love and dedication. This thing is the most macabre and lively record we've heard lately. It really fits well in this period of disarray, and we felt it was urgent to share it with you.
Supermarché arrives to you in a clear crystal DVD boxset with a 20 page zine of original new paintings and an exclusive poster.
Tracklist
| 1. | INTRO | 2:19 |
| 2. | BRED TO SHOPS | 3:02 |
| 3. | MERCER AND DRAPER | 4:51 |
| 4. | DUTCH BLACK SILK | 5:59 |
| 5. | SINCERE CRIME | 3:58 |
| 6. | DULL CONVERSATION | 4:33 |
| 7. | TODD RUNDGREN'S LSD | 2:59 |
| 8. | PURSE OF GOLD | 4:18 |
| 9. | THE BATH | 4:34 |
| 10. | PROTO-POEM | 2:59 |
| 11. | ALMONSTER VOICE | 3:05 |
| 12. | SERVANT CLOTH | 3:43 |
Credits
Recorded at home 2014 / 2015.
Mastered by Willi at Institut für Wohlklangforschung, Hannover.
Vocals on Todd's Rundgren's LSD by Eelio Estevez.
Violin on Almonster Voice by Wendy Gondeln.
Layout and design by Thibault Proux.
Published by Unclean Dog (ASCAP).
www.run-dust.com
Thanks to the French, the Brits, the Germans, the Czech and one Canadian.
