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Mark Dwinell - Nonloc [lp] Ba Da Bing! The main man in post/space rock big noise makers, Bright, who I had the pleasure of seeing in spring 2000 over here, Mark Dwinell is a renaissance chap in the vein of David Grubbs say (but with added painting skills as displayed on the front cover) and this is a very lovely record of your actual proper songs. Admittedly some of them do sound a bit like that post rock business (feedback noises and hitting the old delay ay ay ay ay pedal) but they all have proper verses and choruses and that! To top it off he plays some mean John Faheyesque acoustic guitar, which is nicely complimented by the strings provided by Fahey colloborator (as well as Cul De sac and Damo Suzuki network member Micheal Torres.) Occasionally things do get a little Peter Gabriel on the vocal front (in a good ‘Lamb Lies Down On Broadway’ sense) but there's no intrusively busy Phill Collins cunt on drums and no filthy keyboard virtuosity just simple melodies, nice layers of picked acoustics and some shakers by way of percussion. He's on the search for licensing and distribution in the UK (so god knows why he sent it to me), but check out the label site and his own for sound samples and the possibility of computer assisted mail order purchases. Will the wonders of the internet never cease! Ian Unpeeled (the zine that covers the John Peel shows, info from shane@unpeeled.freeserve.co.uk)

Mark Dwinell Ba Da Bing!