Blackberries by Carnivorous Plants

Ace new gear from Owen Chambers of the excellent Liquid Library label, here providing a fresh serving of fruit via his Carnivorous Plants project.

'Blackberries' is a dense and chaotic, yet at times also delicate concoction, constructed of loops made with clarinet, vocals and guitar. Excessive distortion applied. Staring directly into the sun.

More of Owen's work both as an artist and label boss can be discovered right here:
https://liquidlibrary.bandcamp.com/

REVIEWS:
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"Aphelion Editions showcases this latest solo work from Owen Chambers of the excellent Liquid Library label, operating here under the Carnivorous Plants moniker. Massive walls of distortion are the name of the game on ‘Blackberries’, but amid the maelstrom of clarinet, vox and guitar we also get moments of calm and beauty. The end result is somewhere between Merzbow and Sonic Youth." NORMAN RECORDS
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/184806-carnivorous-plants-blackberries

"As far as I know, Aphelion Editions is one of the very few labels who release the same thing on both on CDR and cassette; there is some true love for the underground there. And underground knows underground as behind Carnivorous Plants we find Owen Chambers, who runs the Liquid Library label himself. This is my first introduction to his work. On Bandcamp page from his label, you will find lots more. Owens is a man with a love for the guitar, the complete package with amps and distortion. According to the information, there is also clarinet and vocals, from which he constructed loops. On this forty-minute cassette, you will find five pieces, of which 'Ruby' is at fifteen minutes the longest. The other four are around four to six minutes. The whole release is quite a beast, top-heavy from the first to the last second. It is not the variation of noise that screams down the tube all the way, not a wall of noise, but in all its distortion there is detail and, also quite important, there is variation. Each of the pieces is a minimal set of variations; once the ball rolls it is one way until it ends, but within that, there is some variation. Some very fine guitar noise at work here refined I'd say, but I could understand that's not the word everybody would use." FRANS DE WAARD, VITAL WEEKLY 1263
http://www.vitalweekly.net/1263.html

Tracklist

1.	Somewhere Else	5:23

2.	Crystal Pepsi	6:55

3.	Putting My Fist Through The Sky	6:37

4.	Ruby	15:10

5.	Putting My Fist Through The Sky (Microdeform rmx)	4:13

Credits

released October 17, 2020

APHELION017
music and artwork by owen chambers (carnivorous plants)
mastering by thomas j. bryan
'Putting My Fist Through The Sky' remix by microdeform
design, layout and digital layering by liam mcconaghy
aphelioneditions@gmail.com
tremologhosts@hotmail.co.uk

STOCKISTS:
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NORMAN RECORDS (UK)
www.normanrecords.com/records/184806-carnivorous-plants-blackberries

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