Another brilliant effort from a duet which has the power to move and surprise us continuously.
6 & 8 is an electronic experimental / sound poetry duet formed by the UK-based sound designer Rory Mc Cormik and by the free form poet Jessica Peace. Mostly known for their digital releases on the net-label Xylem Records, the duo is back with a tryptic. Joana is third chapter, entirely built on weird catchy sound collages, sonically dense and immersive electronic textures and various sampled- looped motives.
What characterizes this project and which makes its very singular sound identity is its unique use of mnemonic poetically narrative phrases combined to purely organic sounding glitch ambient in a rather melancholic-blurry mysterious mood. Quite discreet but solidly elaborated with distinctive moments of musical genius, each album re-define in an original way ambient sounding experiments. Successively emotive, sensual, strangely lysergic and heteroclite, this new digital work breaks out musical conformism to provide a collection of exquisite evocative soundscapes with a constant feeling of wonder and dreaminess.
“Brunswick St. features” figures among the true highlights of 6 & 8 creativity with a delicately nostalgic vintage organ sequences and absolute otherworldly melodic fragments punctuated by Jessica Peace’s introspectively delicate words. The other tracks cover a large range of electronic experiments, from digitized glitch, minimal ambient to cryptic poetical collages. Another brilliant effort from a duet which has the power to move and surprise us continuously.
Joana is available on Xylem.
