According to a brief description, it is simply the band improvising by “blowing on the strings with amps turned up very loud.” The result is spectacular, just a billowing mass of resonance. “Happy Days” is pizzicato-meets-pixelated: little scrapes of tingling sound that mix together like some heady, multi-faceted mobile, ever on the move. More, because the more you listen, the more you hear just how much is taking place. Less, because to hear “The Happy Days (4/13)” ( MP3) and “Blown” ( MP3), two recent pieces, is to hear music that seemingly doesn’t require five people to realize it. The result is something that’s both less and more than the sum of its parts. The guitar quintet Family Tapes aims to make what it calls “anti-wanking” music - music, the terminology suggests, that takes the guitar as something other than a tool for showmanship, for heavy riffing, for complex leads, for vocalizing-like melodies, for all the things that make the guitar synonymous with ego and strong-willed self-expression, rather than with subtlety and atmosphere.
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