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Jim Haynes Established twenty years ago, the Helen Scarsdale Agency is devoted to a unique world of sound recording that embraces post-industrial, collage, minimalism and noise. It is within this realm of innovation that multi-disciplinary artist Jim Haynes, the agency’s ‘sole occupant’, resides, dedicating his creative existence to a zone of destruction and its attendant processes of corrosion, decay and rust. Working across multiple media, Haynes states rather simply “I rust things”. Whether it be corroding photographs, compiling cinema scapes or producing sound compositions, Haynes uses motors, industrial materials and ‘found objects’ to create a world of dystopia and devastation.
Chore IA is the brainchild of philosopher, bassist and avant garde rock enthusiast, Jacek Wanat. Originally releasing material as far back as 1995, Wanat spent many of the intervening years making music with Radek Dziubek, Tomek Maliński and Waldek Paziewski in the band Blimp before eventually returning to his earlier project in 2018 with the album Schizophrenia. Spread across two CDs the latest Chore IA album, Postscriptum / Neogolizmowa is an unabashed festival of weird ambient electronica. The first disc, Postscriptum, is made up of 5 long pieces of psychedelic ambient drone, whilst the second disc, Neogolizmowa, is made up of previously released material, including tracks from the two cassettes that were released on OBUH records, as well as other material taken from that same period.
