Mission of Burma, Trem Two Live 1983
This is from the DVD that is included in the re-issue of the seminal Mission of Burma record Vs.
I’m thinking lately about sequence, and how the order of presentation can be just as important as the thing being presented. This brings me to Track 3 of Vs. Trem Two, Tracks one and two (Secrets and Train in this case) set the table. Secrets being this janglely, noisy cacophony of feedback and reintroduces loops of sound with a punk energy that ends up solidifing itself and then ends. Train then starts out where Secrets ends, with a more straight forward beat and progression that ends up full of energy and angst. At this point Trem Two does what both of the previous songs started, there is a spaced out distant guitar that sounds if was recorded in a vastness it also has intense amount of energy that is subdued and ultimately restrained. So by the time I get Track 6 Learn How everything that has been built and subsequently restrained explodes and I can barely have the presence of mind to flip the record, but of course do because there is a entire other side of music.
My point is that by the time I get three songs into this album I get the overview of not what this record is about, rather what this record COULD be. Trem Two being the 3rd song is super important because it not only keeps me interested it plays off the first two tracks so well that I want to explore the rest of the record with extra attention and detail.
Yeah, I know. But I think breaking down the emotional response can be helpful for me to think about what I do and how the progression of images can work the same way.
