ZOVIET FRANCE-Assault And Mirage-(Red Rhino Recs-UK-1987)

Zoviet France is an idiosyncratic group of anonymous post-industrialists, dronologists, and pseudo-ethnomusicologists. Their investigations have taken them into fictional cultures where nothing is easily located and reality often slips into the hypnagogic. Having secluded themselves in Newcastle, England since their inception in 1980, Zoviet France has developed a radical relationship with the cheap technologies of old-fashioned tape recorders, homemade acoustic instruments, primitive looping and sampling devices, and basic dub trickery. From these machines, the collective has crafted a distinctly unique vocabulary of postindustrial sonic hypnosis. Just as Zoviet France's sound was alchemic reconfigurations of inexpensive technologies, their vinyl packaging literally covered their sounds with aluminium, roofing shingles and porcelain. This tape is crafted with 11 tracks of sublime noiz-ambient...it came out on the Red Rhine Records. Defunct UK indie label, founded in York in 1977 by Tony Kostrzewa. It had a Belgian division, Red Rhino Europe, that was distributed by Play It Again Sam [PIAS].
Red Rhino Records closed down with the financial collapse of Red Rhino Distribution in 1988.(all the info from Discogs)
Their actual webpage is here.
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Tracklist

A1	Siege
A2	Frost Smoke
A3	Fire Sticks
A4	Mosland
B1	Shimmer In The Shiel
B2	Mana
B3	Tocasenh
B4	Beat Up Cut Branches
B5	Scree Shift
B6	Fountains Fell
B7	Siege Retreat

Credits

• Performer, Producer, Composed By – Robin Storey

Notes

Cassette packaged in a cardboard box, with a photo attached to the front. A wrap-around translucent sleeve comes over the box, with print on the spines, and an image on the front, plus an insert.