condition (record/cover): NM / NM 

Red flexi-disc in paper sleeve.

A flexi-disc object from Dave Phillips, the Swiss sound artist who has been one of the central figures of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe since the early Nineties alongside Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck), Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant), and others. Before Schimpfluch, Phillips was the vocalist and lyricist of the notorious Swiss extreme grindcore band Fear Of God, and that intensity has continued to inform his sound work across four decades.

The two sides of the flexi take their titles from distinct linguistic registers: the English I See Better With My Eyes Closed (a phenomenological statement about sound's capacity to show us what visual perception obscures) and the German Ich Kann Gar Nicht So Viel Fressen Wie Ich Kotzen Möchte ("I can't eat as much as I'd like to vomit," Max Liebermann's famous reaction to Nazi cultural policy in 1933). The combination is characteristic of Phillips's working method: sound-phenomenological investigation yoked to political and existential outrage.

Released by the Lisbon-based Estranhas Ocupações ("Strange Occupations"), a small flexi-disc-specialising imprint dedicated to the most difficult corners of the international noise and action-music underground, this object belongs to the continuing tradition of the small-edition noise artifact that Phillips has consistently championed since the Schimpfluch-Gruppe first emerged. A physically fragile object (flexi-disc in the literal sense) documenting one of the most durable and principled careers in European extreme sound art.