Vikah
Abstract music has this way of communicating in a seemingly concrete way. Driving back from LA at midnight along a stretch of Californian desert, odd lights, a full moon and this album playing. I was taken to a place far far away.
Favorite track: Stereo Meditation For Bedroom Fuzz / Squigglizer Overture / Gillette A La Mode / UFO Renaissance.
Well Tempered Ignorance is the debut solo work from Jonathan James Carr, member of Seattle's Brain Fruit. This recording finds the classically trained pianist marrying free-jazz inspired synthesizer arrangements with musique concrète elements recorded abroad in India and Berlin. These two 20+ minute pieces that make up Well Tempered Ignorance run the gamut from elastic modular psychedelia to calm, transparent symmetry that create in its entirety an amalgam of top-tier drone and exultant audio sculpture. Featuring Kaori Suzuki of Magic Echo Music on an early production model of one of her hand-built synthesizers.
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The opener, Astral O, is a simulacram of Cambodian jungles in a tape digital world. A futurist Boards of Canada, you’ll find pristine wild landscapes punctuated with futur lasers, cascading soundscapes surrounded by drum circles. It makes sense, considering the contributions of Dustin Wong on Vong Wong. Vikah
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