I first came across the sadly defunct Florida-based noise nihilists Boy + Girl when their founder/mastermind AG Davis sent me a demo for release on my label. An inspiring fifteen-minute blast of heavily-edited grind-noise juxtaposed with excursions into severely-damaged electronic melodicism and out-of-context field recordings, I heavily dug this short burst of mayhem I was given, the overall album reminding me in the best possible way of some of Sissy Spacek's re-appropriation of their early grindcore demos. I eventually asked Davis to design the logo for my label, to which he happily obliged, and we've since kept in touch through the power of the Internet, but my one regret is not having been able to witness Boy + Girl in its live incarnation. While the various B+G CD's and cassettes jumped between the harsh, meticulous gabber-churn to even nauseatingly unbalanced pop jingles, Davis and co. turned B+G into something else entirely live. A delirious, wonderful mess of the most id-driven factions of noise, free jazz, hardcore, and whatever else you may gather from the ensuing muck, the players in these incarnations (always with Davis on vocals it appears) definitely hit upon a homemade, chaotic freedom sorely missing in a lot of noise performance these days.
This last video from around the end of the band's lifespan features a collaboration with Rat Bastard's legendarily calamitous Laundry Room Squelchers, complete with some literal purging from Davis:
As for what Davis has been up to lately, he's released some great collaborative 7"'s on the labels Gilgongo and Skrot Up with saxophonist Jamison Williams, their interplay recalling a young and hungry Zorn and Yamataka Eye:
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