Teargas & Plateglass
Black Triage (2007) 

Choosing its company carefully, through criteria often misunderstood,  Teargas & Plateglass have produced songs and remix collaborations with an array of disparate artists including David Sylvian, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Zap Mama, the Roots’ poetess Ursula Rucker, David Hykes, the Côte D'Ivoirean songstress Lil Gong, Tweaker, cha'abi moderne singer   Natacha Atlas, Elysian Fields’ Jennifer Charles. 

With a stunning Sebastaio Salgado photograph for it’s cover, their eponymous  debut album was released with little fanfare in 2004, noted mostly by other artists:

Danger Mouse (“heavy visual stuff…sounds like the end of the world”), King Britt (“restores my faith that deep, dark music still moves the masses”), Chris Vrenna (“a soundtrack to the darkest places in my mind”), along with a few publications: XLR8R (“darkness mixed thick like a pool of blood… take with a stiff glass of Absinthe”).  

The band retreated until 2004, reappearing to perform five unannounced eastern European shows guised under the names Septagon, Undecagon, Duodecagon, Enneacontagon, Hecatommyriagon.  

The band's new Black Triage album resonates with themes of genocide, combined with stark breaks and haunting vocals, poignant strings and melancholy synths.  Provocative and intense, moments of silence evoking not a sense of peace, but claustrophobia.   

To compliment the album’s visceral quality, the text for the booklet was penned by the renowned filmmaker Godfrey Reggio of Koyyanisqatsi fame. 

3 music videos were produced for the Black Triage album including ‘Simplify this Landscape with Darkness’, ‘One Day Across the Valley’ and ‘Plague Burial’ which features David Hykes, a pioneer of modern harmonic music.