have yet to translate the song titles so the artist's intentions are somewhat of a mystery to me, but the wavering surface noise creates the theme of a dialogue between music & technology before becoming invisible to my ears. this conjures memories of listening to music as a child (long before the sterility of digital media), when i rarely took notice of the hiss & pops of records, 8-tracks, tapes, & am radio because they were a normal, necessary aspect of recorded sound. nice to be back again. Scott
Soon to become among my most-played albums. Would like to have on vinyl. Originally, I'd sprawled down to listen to this in headphones and after the first part--which functions as an apt reminder to live with awareness of uncertainty--was taken aback by the second, which retains the wave-like repetitious atmosphere of the first but with a much darker tone, unexpectedly reminding me in spirit of Wereju's 'Under the Receding Wave'. What follows the second part? The sunrise.. perhaps! L
The latest from the aptly-named bleak lives in the dark valley between musique concrete & power electronics, stark and harrowing. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 19, 2021