rev.99

rev.99: Turn A Deaf Ear

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2001

The French Situationalist movement of the 1960s for the most part has been ignored here in the United States, but its call to re-examine art, media, and culture has been taken up by writer/poet 99 Hooker and the musicians that make up rev.99. Their “environmental improv,” Turn A Deaf Ear mixing rants with new experimental improvisation exists as a document of a sonic cultural jamming.

Parts of this disc feel as if it were consumed in fire. The musicians Ernesto ...