Blissfully encapsulated psychedelic downtempo from the past inside the present.
Casting surreal and sweeping musical shadows
Two tracks spread over 27 minutes, Boston producer, zine maker, and educator Andrew Petzold-Eley (samples, programming, drum machine) along with Douglas Tesnow (bass clarinet, electronics) and Evan Hydzik (live percussion, electronics bass) draft chilled’n jangly streams and ethereal sonic trips. Opener “Thought_Mechanism/ Cartography I/ Doubt of a Moment/ Cartography I” features a kaleidoscope of slow-grooving drums, rolling bass, wind instruments, fractured vocal slices, and subtle guitar strings wandering within trip-hop avenues late at night—a slow-motion powerhouse. “I Told You It Was a Vision” sees a more abstract trajectory of subdued white noise, improvised jazz movements, and rippling drone escapes that could loop infinitely. Such blissfully encapsulated psychedelic downtempo from the past inside the present, Thought-Vision-Doubt is a definitive highlight casting surreal and sweeping musical shadows. Recommended for fans of Meat Beat Manifesto, teebs, Amon Tobin, and The Future Sound of London.
Notes ::
“Thought-Vision-Doubt flickers with the grain of vinyl and the hiss of audio tapes, some over twenty-five years old. In fact, all of the album’s tracks were recorded on the original master tapes of long-disbanded Chicago avant-folk outfit Static Films. Wanting to interweave with those recordings but not erase them, Petzold-Eley meticulously recorded all of T-V-D’s material in the blank, unused tracks, in the empty space between the takes. No stranger to such self-imposed limitations and analogue processes, Petzold-Eley continues to record using the same Tascam Mini-PortaStudio he purchased from a Chicago pawn shop in 1999 and still formats issues of his paper zine (That’s Like) Fighting Godzilla with a Squirtgun with x-acto knives, tape, and rubber cement.”
Thought-Vision-Doubt is available on Katuktu Collective. [Bandcamp]
