Experimental Electronic Music
FLC pushes the sonic envelope into more atomically intense innerscaping; couched as it is in sprawling tracts from brooding pulse (“Still Canyon”) to queasy drones (“Hypogeum”), chthonic atmo (“Thawing Ice Temples”) to percolating celestial (“Rain Clouds Descending”)…
Meanwhile, back in the chilly vastness of space, through the cosmic field recordings and analog electronics is felt the beating heart of the human, as syntheticopia continues to hum with hushed hymnals for stargazing souls.
At a distance of nearly two decades, Herbstlaub resonates with the same melancholy magic, a-fizz with fertile experimentation with the tropes of two musical modes once thought incongruent via shiny new tools, ending up transcending its conceptual start-point.
The whole naturally transcends reductive description in deeper listening mode, from which arises a tenor marked by a kind of wistful unease.
Overall, D, R, O S makes for a diverting work of wry mischief-making social comment in sonic documentary clothing couched in ’70s/80s library sonics and retro-fit synthesis.
Compiling all new mixes of Sonogram’s ‘quieter moments,’ Compendium makes for a subtly deep low-light listen.
PCA adepts who’ve followed the project’s trajectory over the last decade may miss the signature purr and prod of bass propulsion and its dynamic; but they will find here new skin for the old ceremony, with fresh, or reformed, pleasures, wrapped/rapt as they are in diaphanous new configurations.
Maneuvering through dilapidated ambient-electronics, alien concrète reverberations and clicks’n’cuts, data swirl and digital flutter.
