Red Rum Trance – Red Rum Trance

Red Rum Trance
Red Rum Trance
1998 (no label)

Matt Frantz – Electric guitar, fretless guitar, bass, classical guitar, synthesizer, acoustic and electric drums

Side 1:

1. Shrill Chasm (Down Into The Rabbit Hole, Down Into The Fault Line, What It Is To Be A Chisel)
2. Rhythmic Clawing (It Wants Out, You Can Hear It, You Can Feel It, What Is It?)
3. What You’re Feeling?/That Scares Me (Marching Rush, What Do You Mean Creativity? I’m Just Writing Down What I’m Feeling)
4. Creepwalking (Walk Like A Creep, Walking In Your Creep)
5. Lungs Filling With Fluid (Lungs Still Filling, Swelling Blister, Slowly Convulsing Violin)
6. Casting Out/Killing Witches (Pushing It Down, Burning It Back)
7. Alpine (Acoustic Fallout, Aerial Trapeze)

Side 2:

1. Oriental Fighting Style (Constant Attack From All Angles At Once)
2. Lazy Guillotine (Mutating Metal In Motion)
3. Taunt, Taunt, Jab, Jab (Dominant Monkey)
4. Red Rabbit Staring You Down (White Rabbit Turning Red, Chaser, Down Into It)
5. Clash Classical Crash (Confrontational Tones)
6. Sailing Off The Edge Of The Earth (Suspended In Firmament, Clear Through, A Sea Serpent Myth)
7. Dead Calm (Twelve Feet Deep, Warm And Translucent)
8. Snap (A Transcription Of A Dream)

As the cassette says above, this is most of the tracks that were later released as Red Rum Trance. Red Rum Trance is Matt Franz, and this was his third solo album. I believe that Red Rum Trance was also the name of the project as well at the time it was released. All of the tracks are on BandCamp now, so you can see that for some reason, two tracks from side one (“Out of the Ashes” and “Startle-Swarming”) were left off of this tape. The sound here is experimental noise made on guitars and percussion instruments/percussive things. There are recognizable rhythms and song structures here, so it’s not completely noise, but those rhythms and structures are often very free form and mixed with noise as well. Frantz describes this as a mixture of “Industrial, Ambient, Tribal, Jazz, Oriental Folk, and Noise.” That is pretty accurate. I kind of like it.