Back in 1996, a weird individual from the backwoods of Kelso, Washington, settled down in Portland, Oregon, and soon began appearing at house parties all over the area, assaulting the audiences with his harsh kind of “music”, along the way picking up the nickname of Redneck.
As the basis for his sounds, he uses field recordings of breaking glass and wood chopping, which may be rather recognizable at the start of his performance, but which are then gradually distorted and amplified beyond comprehension into a noisy wall of sound. As part of his performance, he will be waiting/ lurking around in the audience for a while before getting onto the stage, and after fiddling with the knobs to give his field recordings the degree of noisy onslaught he is looking for, he might start yelling out over the heads of the public in a frantic sort of “dance” which finds him wobbling his body like a drunk with an amazing sense of balance. Another part of his show is to fall down on the floor, stay there for a while, and crawl up in order to start fiddling with the knobs again in order to shift the loops of his amplifiers' noise output. With apparent calm, he will then smear some red-coloured marmalade (I'm not certain whether it's strawberry or raspberry) on his face, stand there like a zombie facing the public, or start shouting again, and again drop down on the floor...to pick himself up again and start wobbling about the stage like a dervish!
According to the info sheet that came along with the download of the cassette album (which sports the aptly-titled tracks “Possession I” and “Possession II” for a total of just under 34 minutes' worth of playing time), fans of Merzbow, NON, Throbbing Gristle, and mid-century sound collages, should find an interest in this Redneck thing. Personally, I feel the show that comes with the sounds is rather a must, so by all means check the “Video” section at (http://) eolianempire (some 10 pieces of live footage available at YouTube). Wacky experimental stuff and, as said, needs the visuals to go with the sounds. Points are for the experimental inventiveness.