AMG Review of Clouds

Joslyn Layne
All Music Guide

Clouds is a live performance by Lee Ranaldo and William Hooker, joined at times by Jim O'Rourke on electronics and Farfisa, and Gianni Gebbia on alto and sopranino sax. This experimental-embracing group took the stage at the 1997 ~FIMAV in Quebec and proceeded to sonically smash, grind, and break it up in a sort of dense melee, to interesting, sometimes chaotic, effect.