Ground Control Touring

French singer and visual artist Ma Clément met songwriter Zach Phillips in 2018 as he reeled from a concussion after colliding with a Brussels streetlamp. The band leading duo independently released their debut album “God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess” on New Year’s Day of 2021 with as little fanfare as any of Phillips’ forty-plus past records (see: OSR Tapes, Blanche Blanche Blanche), but it gradually garnered cult acclaim among musicians and online crate diggers. Recorded entirely live with cheap microphones, half-broken cassette equipment, and a rotating cast of twenty-five able accompanists in New York, Los Angeles, Brussels and southern France, the uncategorizable compilation of twenty quick-moving miniatures ranging from bossa nova to post-punk stands as a unique document of a promising group with an unusual ethos and a colossal amount of music in store.