These two fleeting moments (just over seven and just under nine minutes, respectively) may well be the most beautiful recordings of the year and will stay with you forever.
One of the many things that is wonderful about the Sheepscar Light Industrial series of three-inch CDRs—irregularly released in clutches of three since about a year back—is that it provides a strict, fixed point of entry into the work of so many less-known artists. Andie Brown, Londoner and former member of acclaimed experimentalists Cindytalk, is a revelation. Her slight discography as These Feathers Have Plumes stretches back to 2008 but is all but unavailable.
The opening piece of Untitled, “Between Earth and Air,” peals into the air as prayer bowls are struck and glasses bowed reverberant until morphing into a saw-toothed drone. The second, “Don’t Wish Your Life Away,” is a lush thermal carrying a sweet, somber melody off distant waves lapping at the shore, a sonic, soul-enriching embrace. These two fleeting moments (just over seven and just under nine minutes, respectively) may well be the most beautiful recordings of the year and will stay with you forever. Proving once again that brevity is the most effective communication, especially when you’ve got something very profound to say.
Untitled is available on Sheepscar Light Industrial.
