This unusual record will take you through some derouting mazes, evoking at times the perplexity and obfuscation of the experience of illness and slow, uncertain recovery. It’s free music, but not in the free jazz way.
Maybe it’s dystopic lounge ambiance, with evanescent melodic lines on the shakuhachi and circular undertones. Sometimes bleak, brooding, fractured and gloomy; at other moments rather delicate, elaborate and lush.
A nocturnal record, where melancholy and aching is slowly dissolved by a sprawling confidence, where mental landscapes are built on the contemplation of opioid numbness and extraction therefrom.
(from the press release from the original vinyl release on ini.itu records)
Recovery Suite is an unusual recording in a number of ways. Firstly, it combines two disparate sound worlds – the “natural” sound of the shakuhachi, and the “artificial” world of electronically-generated and -manipulated sound – and deliberately questions their apparent antithesis. It also questions the nature of the… afficher plus
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paru le 2 octobre 2018
David Ross – drosscillator
Clive Bell – shakuhachi
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Released on Sound Anatomy
Berlin, Germany
