Cassette
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Quiet Evenings – Light Billows
Blissful long form drone from Quiet Evenings (Grant & Rachel Evans) with Light Billows on their own Hooker Vision imprint. 52 minutes of drone and vocal textures, cello and tape-saturated synths. Light and heavy, dense and a million miles wide. Recaptures a bit of what I felt of the Sacred Phases catalog in the 20… Continue reading
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Deep Cross – Scaffolded Dawn
Haunting electronics and choral hymns from Deep Cross, with Scaffolded Dawn on Phage Tapes. Over 30 minutes, six tracks of tense at times caustic sounds with a sense of both intention and spontaneity. Like a living organism, seeking, breathing, struggling to contain itself – there’s a cut up and reassembled feel to things, rough bits… Continue reading
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Planning For Burial – Matawan: Collected Works 2010-2014
Double cassette retrospective of smokey slow burning out-takes and drafts from Planning For Burial with Mattawan: Collected Works 2010-2014 on The Flenser. Twenty eight tracks spanning almost two hours. There is a lot to digest here and as you’d expect from a collection of this magnitude things run a wide gamut of genres, styles and… Continue reading
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Tossapol – Places
20 minutes of hissing, tumbling off kilter field recording from Tossapol with Places on Un Poco Fría. It’s a curious genre. In what other physical medium could these tracks exist than cassette really? What words could explain what these sounds consist of, mean, or why some choose to listen? Collected sounds of what are described… Continue reading
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Lutto Lento – Death Beam
Austere, post industrial from Lutto Lento with 2011 cassette release Death Beam polish label Sangoplasmo. Produced as a sound installation for Longing for Tesla commissioned by Czarny Neseser gallery and Gallery Design BWA Wroclaw. Two tracks of cosmic techno inspired by the electromagnetic weapon invented by Nikola Tesla in the 1930s. Stark, pulsating soundscapes awash… Continue reading