There’s good chaos and bad chaos. Sometimes improv works, sometimes it doesn’t. Though I can’t articulate why, Teleopsis Belbebuth works. It’s noisy, unpredictable, exciting, and unedited. The title track is especially fascinating: I love the tortured, processed voices primitively reacting to the fearsomely chaotic music growing around them (it’s an idea repeated elsewhere on the album). It calls to mind a small group of frightened Neanderthals surrounded by giant bug-like aliens in shaky, legged transports. Or, you know, that early scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where the apes start freaking out over the first monolith and there’s that eerie, droning music.

The album is available from the Internet Archive in 192kbps MP3 as individual tracks or a zipped package.

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