Reynols is a trio of Argentinean nutters led by Down's Syndrome-afflicted drummer/vocalist Miguel Tomasin (their name was chosen randomly by a chihuahua walking on a TV remote control unit: Burt Reynolds appeared on the screen - one wonders what became of that penultimate "d"..), whose releases include a "dematerialized CD" (i.e. an empty box), a recording of 10,000 chickens in a battery farm, and an album of treated tape hiss for Bernhard Günter's trente oiseaux label. Once nearly arrested in Buenos Aires (on the grounds that they might reflect a negative image of Argentina - maybe Tomasin's next move could be to change his name to Eva Peron) for plugging their axes into pumpkins and not playing in public, the trio caught the attention of the new music media with "Pauline Oliveros in the Arms of Reynols", which brought them an invitation to play a seven-hour Lincoln Center concert with Pauline herself. All of this is well-known, but what about the music? "Bolas Tristes" is a collection of short (except for "Permuto Hojaldre" which clocks in at 13'25") nihilistic sound blasts recorded between 1994 and 1996 and originally released on cassette in England by Matching Head. Here it's "remastered" (??) and housed in a lurid fluorescent orange jewel box (the CD itself seems to have been spray-painted in the same orange and won't play on half the machines I've tried it on, which is presumably deliberate). The duff sound

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