Heather Trost - "Early Gardens" (2:22)
Roj - "Trip To The Shops" (3:07)
The Sonic Catering Band - "Death Borscht" (2:35)
The Sonic Catering Band - "The Third Gastric Surge Of The Night" (5:44)
Jeremy Barnes - "The Funeral Table" (3:08)
The Sonic Catering Band - "Greed" (2:42)
The Sonic Catering Band - "HLA-DQ8" (2:21)
Heather Trost - "Earlier Gardens" (3:34)
Roj - "Trip To The Shops" (Footfall) (2:19)
Nurse With Wound - "Hindu Monastery Breakfast" (4:19)
Tim Harrison - "Ohmlette’s Law" (1:44)
The Sonic Catering Band - "Vegetable Trash" (0:28)
The Sonic Catering Band - "A Sedimental Journey" (1:42)
The Sonic Catering Band - "Baron Von Omelette" (4:07)
The Sonic Catering Band - "Dossierge De Canteen" (1:00)
Cavern Of Anti Matter - "Insufflation Tube" (1:03)
Jeremy Barnes - "The Funeral Table" (Gluten-Free) (2:44)
The Sonic Catering Band - "A Pain I Can’t Hold In" (2:55)
Heather Trost - "Earliest Gardens" (1:40)
Dan Hayhurst - "Monday Service" (3:28)
The Sonic Catering Band - "Dietary Crash" (1:54)
Marta Salogni - "Cross-Contamination" (3:50)
Roj - "Trip To The Shops" (Closing Down) (2:55)
Jeremy Barnes - "The Funeral Table" (Demonstration) (3:01)
Review: In Peter Strickland's Flux Gourmet, a dysfunctional group of performance artists undertake a month-long residency at an institute devoted to culinary disciplines. Food is interrogated for its sonic potential as the group mic-up, amplify, distort and transform what they cook in front of an audience. Image, color, light and sound are integrated and heightened to delirious levels of hyperreality, much like Strickland's past works, Berberian Sound Studio and In Fabric. Flux Gourmet very much alludes to Strickland's past as a member of The Sonic Catering Band, which he founded back in 1996; the band split on several occasions, but got back together to create new pieces for the soundtrack, concocting strange sonic morsels and treating recipes as if they were scores. The noise that the characters in the film itself make is driven by food blenders, overflowing cauldrons of gurgling soup and sizzling frying pans (courtesy of The Sonic Catering Band), yet the music that soundtracks the culinary capers is engorged with aching melodies and wordless, airy vocals. Contributors include Cavern of Anti-Matter, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk and a Hacksaw and Trost's band, Roj (formerly of Broadcast), and Nurse With Wound. Flux Gourmet is presented in a lush 2xLP package with an ornate, colorful design and Strickland's detailed liner notes.
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