Considering the density of each piece, The lady from New York is a surreal, disjointed, yet perplexing album that merits repeated listening to even begin scratching its multi-layered surfaces.
A perplexing audio collage
This May 2024 quasi-psychedelic and avant-garde 10-track collection on Tuscany-based Kaczynski Editions is a perplexing audio collage displaying a variety of complex field recordings and off-kilter instrumental compositions. “Harlem afternoon” and “Noise and jazz in Central Park” were interestingly recorded in the New York subway and Central Park. Niet F-n and Simone Ginesi recorded, mixed, and mastered the album in a kitchen in Caprigliola, a small village of Lunigiana (Tuscany). An improvised assortment composed in one take with cello and trumpets to boot, The lady from New York is an oddly captivating listening experience of esoteric recordings with intermittent noises that pop in and out of the sound field.
With its burnt-sounding, detuned elements, and static background fuzz, “Subway Crackman” transports listeners to another realm with pitter-patter drums, Fennesz-like noisescapes, and explosive closure. Although “Noise and jazz in Central Park” bookends The lady from New York with a cacophony of entangled pandemonium, there are also somewhat more tranquilized pieces like “One Night in the Village” and “Harlem afternoon,” with their curious ambient buzz and distant, imperceptible conversations, that eventually implode with noisier surroundings.
Considering the density of each piece, The lady from New York is a surreal, disjointed, yet perplexing album that merits repeated listening to even begin scratching its multi-layered surfaces.
The lady from New York is available on Kaczynski Editions. [Bandcamp]
