meshmass have returned from their scattered hauntings of peculiar places - it is alleged that peter was found playing the soprano saxophone in a disused mine on a mediterranean island (but this can scarcely be true, surely) and that richard has had a headache for a month. the long-delayed and no doubt anxiously awaited april edition of the monthly mass is now available to subscribers on the interweb. it contains approximately 74 minutes of music including a fairly abstract saxophone and guitar duet (delta), a noisy dance-rocker which utilises a megaphone (step away from the groove), the highly attractive 'sauerkraut', 'peace flapping loose' (a 'duet with pulse' - very gentle and pleasant) laptop-based instrumentals 'nosebleed' and 'culminator' and 'the futility foundation' with additional vocals. also the charming duet 'sanctivated'. all pieces are as usual improvised direct to stereo, edited and in this case most have been painstakingly remastered with eq, compression and limiting applied. so that's 8 pieces ranging from 5:45 to 15:27 in length and from the quietly charming to the rampantly noisy with all sorts of weirdness in between. not a bad month, all in all. work is now proceeding on may's harvest which so far includes a number of samples drawn from recordings of 'sounding stones' made by the sculptor pinnuchio sciola. art turned into art? anything is possible. (except what you just suggested of course, which is obscene.)