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• Artist: Brian Evensen with Xingu Hill & Tamarin
• Album: Altmann
• Label: Ant-Zen
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2005-11-22

Brian Evensen, until William Vollmann publishes a new book, is always America's best writer. The ex-communicated Mormon writes about the daily detached horrors we inflict on each other, and on those only a few dare to inflict on others. His themes are violence, the absence of God, and what happens when empathy dies. This is a selection of five short pieces from his first book, the incredible Altmann's Tongue, which is pretty much impossible to find. Backed by Hill & Tamarin's sparse, creepy blips, and moans, the text is given new and infernal life. Call it horror for the really literate, or call Evensen our Dostoevsky, but this is a winner, made so by the true connection between the music and the words. Not for the squeamish, or, I suppose the impressionable, but not a damn false line, or note, is in here.

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