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Title:  Saxmower Artist:  87 Central Label:  JdK Format:  CD Price:  € 13.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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Title Description:
This album creates a new dynamic in the music of 87 Central using a computer based approach incorporating digital reconstructions of analog feedback systems, digital processing, and data manipulations. Expanding the texture and movement of the previous 87 Central releases, sax mower is based on investigations of the digital debris resulting from samples of improvising jazz musicians processed, stretched, looped, and otherwise manipulated. Sounds are brought back from the waste of digital litter though careful attention to detail and evolving systems characteristic of 87 Central no input mixer work.

Vital Review:
87 CENTRAL - SAXMOWER (CD by JDK Productions)

This is 87 Central's second release, which has been in the works for
some time. Jeff Carey, for it is him who is 87 Central, currentely
lives in The Netherlands were he studies sonology in The Hague. His
first release was also on a Dutch label, ERS Records, and showed his
interest in playing around with feedback sounds. On this new CD,
which has eight tracks, he continues to explore feedback sounds (or
as some people would call it, the 'no input mixer'), but he adds
field recordings to his instruments. Last week, I saw him playing a
concert, and that was a true joy. Sitting behind his mixing board,
with a stack of effect racks and his laptop hidden somewhere
(streaming the field recordings) one could easily see how his sound
is manipulated through equalization, fading of channels etc. Like on
this new CD, the result is not some mere static droning thing (nor a
harsh high toned excercise), but rather a rhythmical effort. Deep
bass end sounds in cyclical ways, with changing high end peeps and
cracks. In some way similar to say Alva Noto, but 87 Central is not
really interested in a quantized 4/4 beat and let everything run
smoothly for a modern dance floor. 87 Central rather picks up
influences from composed musique concrete, so the compositional
structure is much wider, rather then limited to an almost techno
track of five minutes. Maybe in a way this is glitch music, but
certainly one of the kind that has something new to say, a new and
more interesting approach then what is going on. While harking back
to various traditions, 87 Central builts his own new thing of it.
(FdW)

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