(Catalogue no. 13772)
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| Title: |
Plurabelle |
| Artist: |
Jason Kahn |
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Cut |
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CD |
| Price: |
€ 13.00 |
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Title Description:
improv player jason kahn, an american currently residing in zuerich, is known as a percussionist, but his use of live sampling software sets his music at a far remove from traditional drumming. indeed, save for the gongs and chimes that flash intermittently like beacons through plurabelleÕs studied murk, listeners could be forgiven for thinking this was a work of pure digitalia. seven untitled tracks sprawl across an hour of unsteady drones, hisses and crackles.
although the pieces are ostensibly improvisatory in nature, they sound as composed, if not more so, than plenty of programmed microsound. much of the record seems on the verge of being rent by a delicate tension, due to the frictious interplay between layer upon layer of loops cycling independently of one another, recalling goemÕs oscillator churn. kahnÕs methods may be simple, but his music carries surprising force and variation. track five, a swirl of distant bell tones and static, sounds uncannily like the runout groove at the end of sonic youthÕs sister, while track seven evokes a field full of pinwheels spinning lazily -- and ominously -- out of sync.
>philip sherburne, the wire, march 2002
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