Tell Me Strangely The Deep End
The debut for this Melbourne free improv trio that features Dale Chapman from The Drunken Boat, Klunk, etc, alongside newcomers Kalarin Butler and David Powell. Lots of sound sources in play from mic’d objects, prepared electric bass, other strings and a wide array of electronics including circuit-bent toys, tone generators, field recordings, a not so ordinary cassette player, more than one kind of synth and digital piano. The multitude of sources and the positioning of individual sounds within the mix helps to give these tracks a very cinematic and/or musique concrète sensibility, atmospheric as you'd expect. There's an ambient quality too at times but the sense of depth means you'll hear lots of different details on repeated listens. Nothing is the slightest bit planned, let alone composed but there is a sense of structures evolving in real time, this is especially true for the longest track and album centrepiece On the Beach where various sounds drift in and out of the mix, between foreground and background, eventually building up to a crescendo or two via unfamiliar routes. Jump in The Deep End.
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Firoza In the Noon Of Ashura
Firoza is the new solo guise of Hobart’s Steven Wright who has previously released music under his own name and as Polanyi, as well as with various combos. 'In the Noon of Ashura' is the debut for this latest project and it's also the first release on Frustration Jazz to be issued on vinyl! The album was inspired by and partly recorded during a trip to Iran in 2017 and could be described as a travel diary of sorts, albeit one with a definite post-industrial feel to it. The basis for each of the eight compositions was created with a small battery-powered keyboard that Steven took with him on his travels, recorded to mobile phone; those recordings were then added to later on. Interspersed with the composed pieces are fragments of field recordings made whilst on the move between destinations. Partly due to the choice of recording techniques, the tracks retain some of the roughness of a lo-fi sketch and this adds to a sense of ambiguity that is a whole mindset away from the usual didactic representations of the Middle East in western media. There's also an introspective quality to this music and with that comes a psychological weight – it isn’t dark so much as it is its own kind of heavy. It's quite beautiful too.
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