HellenKeller "Demonstration" -- Independent Release 1997-99

HellenKeller for "Demonstration" is:
Ryan Robbins, Futcher, Darren Phillips, Brendan Ostrander, Rich Walters
loops, bass, turntables, oiid,
didgeridoo, tablas, percussion,
synth, drones, etc.
Additional musicians include:
Rosto Blur - bass, clarinet, soprano sax
Jeremy Holmes - upright bass
Jim Vulcano - bass
Wax - turntables
Craig Burdess - tablas

    Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Hellenkeller is a group of very talented individuals who, from what I have read, create some incredible live performances. From hearing "Demonstration", I'd say it would be worth every penny to see these people play a live show -- they are SO GOOD!
    I got a copy of this release from Darren Phillips who was playing keyboards on the December 1999 Dead Voices On Air/Not Breathing North American tour and didn't get a chance to hear it for a few days after returning home. Not knowing what to expect, I gave the CD a listen and I was amazed by how good this release sounds. What's so good about it?
    To start with, it has some incredible beats, deep rhythmic bass, diverse and broad percussion, arrangements, wierd melodies, strange vocal samplings that seem to click with the beats, and sway in and out of, or jump onto the rhythms, creating a collage of new sounds and progressions. Turntables, wind instruments, melodic synth, digeridoo, oiid [anyone know what this is? email me] all add dimension and stylish bulk to the bands de-constructive tendencies in their methods of creating some phat beats and roaming melodies in their haunting experimental psycho-acoustic music.
    Highly recommended! GET THIS CD!