Black to Comm
Rückwärts Backwards
Dekorder 2006
01. Bees
02. Levitation
03. Laccifer Lacca
04. Rückwärts Backwards
05. El Huis Pt. 1
06. Es Gibt Kein Morgen
07. March of the Vivian Girls
08. Virtuousity Is a Means to an End
This album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field recordings (with some voice manipulations and kitchen gamelan thrown in for good measure). The warm hiss of analogue recording techniques combined with the apparently antique sounds of vintage organs, acoustic & electric guitars, pianos, glockenspiel and mbira used on these tracks generate a kind of hyperreal, fake nostalgia playing with one's perception of a pseudo-recollection. The layering and hypnotic repetition of short loops extracted from old psychedelia, free jazz, vaudeville and traditional records reveal a haunting melodic quality sometimes not distinguishable within the original source material, evoking a hovering feeling of bittersweet melancholy with an omnipresent, slightly disturbing atmosphere hidden beneath the surface.
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2 comments:
Thanks as usual. I really have to stop by once a day now.
A message from the universe? Most of your May archive has had it's depostfiles deleted EXCEPT this one...and it was the one (based on your description) that was the most intriguing so I lucked out ;-)
I really enjoyed this 'Black to Comm', I obviously have a 'thing' for 'loopy' material, I am easily entrained to the micro cadences and the overall 'antique' texture induces an experimentalist's nostalgia, carrying me through my own half-remembered (now quite long) history with recorded media.
A reference to Robin Story sans any tribal elements might be drawn, as could it being an aural relative to the films of Jan Svankmajer.
Only complaint, I wish it were a longer release!
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