Sabres Of Paradise have re- issued the pair of albums they originally released in the mid 90s (Sabresonic in 1993 and Haunted Dancehall in 1994). They played a handful of gigs in the summer (Fabric in May, Sydney Opera House a few days and half a world away and then two festival appearances- Primavera and Dekmantel) and have rrecently announced a UK tour for late November with gigs in Bristol, Salford, Sheffield, Leeds, Brighton and London.
The two remaining members of Sabres, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, have done several interviews to accompany all this Sabres activity, three decades on from the last time they played live and released records. This interview at Ransom Note is a short one but very illuminating- Jagz lists and explains eight records that him, Gary and Andrew Weatherall were listening to when they made Sabresonic, the tracks that fed into the sound they were creating back in 1993. Andrew was DJing nationwide at the time and doing his monthly Sabresonic club night in Crucifix Lane, London Bridge station. The eight tracks include some earsplitting, seminal mid- 90s techno, the huge dub techno masterpiece that is Killing Joke's Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Mix), a legendary Plastikman drum machine massacre, Dub Syndicate and Colourbox, the hip hop production/ rap skills of Cypress Hill and Beastie Boys and this fifteen minute ambient epic...
Ob- Selon Mi- Nos (Repainted by Global Communication)
Mystic Institute was a one man outfit, Cornwall's Paul Kent. He pitched up in Mark Pritchard's studio and wrote and recorded two tracks. Global Communications' Tom Middleton was invited round and built an entirely new track around a third Pritchard track that took on a life of its own. Time stops, space expands, the clock hands tick and tock, synths play everlasting melody lines, the heavenly choir's voices drift in and out... 'pure blissed out distortion' as Jagz describes it.