Two new records on Bill Nace's Open Mouth label available now -
Jake Meginsky "L'appel du Vide" LP $28
Subterranean, nearly-inaudible restraint and rushing, stuttering
throbbing rule the night on this new record. Its electric moods are so
resolutely alien they suggest worlds unknown rather than create them.
Irregular heartbeat thumps are set against high end atmospheres
explored in microscopic detail. Haunting overlays of tones fluctuate and
tremble, and not one moment feels forced. The music is meticulously
constructed and consistently surprising, twisting and sparkling. The
electronics spin away, shooting off into bizarre and unexpected
territory, and all the while Meginsky guides them with a benevolent,
confident, endlessly fascinated hand. To hear him tell it, the record
is “a document of me looking for the experience I have not yet had, and
maybe will never have. This is where the title comes from. The pull of
the void.”
Natural phenomena like fog or mist tend to render the environment and
one’s ability to see it nearly impossible, and if you tilt your head
back like you have a nosebleed there is always the fear that the sun
might set sooner. When you stop in a secret place there is no need to
talk. These are streets full of sullen languid violence and grey
phantoms.
Edition of 300. Cover art by Bill Nace. Play at 45 and play loud.Diagram A "Your Object" 2xLP $38
Diagram:A exists in the tendons that connect Western Mass basement dada, the psychedelia of repetition, sculpture, and an idiosyncratic sense of composition and space. It is the sound of electricity, systems connecting and breaking down. An expression simultaneously personal and inhuman. Gatefold 2LP in an edition of 250 with cover art by Bill Nace and insert art by Dan Greenwood."
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