Belong - October Language

Label: Carpark Records
Released: 2006
Style: Noise, Experimental, Ambient

"The collaborative venture of Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones, Belong inhabit a sonic territory that seems perpetually out of sight - giving the same effulgent warmth as standing with your back to a sunset, or glimpsing a blizzard through a frosted window. Understanding that all beauty has an inherent element of decay, Belong resemble a colourful photo left out in the sun to fade - combining an operatic scope akin to Kevin Shields, with an eroded sensibility that flirts with Baskinski and shares a certain predilection with Fennesz or Gas. Constructed with an attention to detail that borders on the compulsive, Belong open with 'I Never Lose. Never Really.'; wherein a camera-obscura approach slowly reveals a static fuzz of sprawling soundscapes and awe-inspiring intensity that shares its scope with Sigur Ros, whilst resorting to none of the orchestral bombast on which they rely. The fact that Dietrich has collaborated with Telefon Tel Aviv (whose Joshua Eustis guests on the title-track) also becomes apparent throughout 'October Language', not so much due to an overt similarity in sound, but more through the wide-screen production and starburst intensity in which they both revel. With the likes of 'I'm Too Sleepy... Shall We Swim?', 'Who Told You This Room Exists' and 'The Door Opens The Other Way' all possessing a corroded elegance that can be interpreted as either majestic or malignant, 'October Language' is a masterclass in dignified disintegration. Phenomenal." - Boomkat

Tracklisting:

1 I Never Lose. Never Really (4:43)
2 Red Velvet Or Nothing (5:40)
3 October Language (5:30)
4 I'm Too Sleepy...Shall We Swim? (5:13)
5 Remove The Inside (5:59)
6 Who Told You This Room Exists? (5:05)
7 All Equal Now (5:31)
8 The Door Opens The Other Way (7:12)

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Philip Jeck - 7

Label: Touch
Released: 2003
Style: Noise, Ambient, Experimental

"Philip Jeck is not your typical turntablist. Like his sometime collaborators Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, and Martin Tétreault, Jeck attends not to beats, breaks, and scratching but rather to the massing of sound, looping and layering scratchy old vinyl until it settles into a kind of rich humus of hiss - fertile soil for the flowering of unexpected melodic shoots. Using vintage Dansette players, a rudimentary Casio sampler, and effects, Jeck isolates tiny fragments of songs - often slowed down to 16 RPM, they're rendered utterly unidentifiable - and assembles them into dense, shifting structures as inviting as Op Art's moiré patterns. His seventh (not including numerous collaborations) solo LP, 7 - like all of Jeck's work - is nominally ambient, in that it opens up sprawling, immersive worlds best explored blindfolded. Individual moments blur and dissipate, and you're left with the sense of having inhabited a vast, harmonic field where all possibilities co-exist at once." - Earplug

Tracklisting:

1 Wholesome (8:21)
2 Museum (6:52)
3 Wipe (4:11)
4 Bush Hum (4:19)
5 Now You Can Let Go (9:01)
6 Some Pennies (6:27)
7 Veil (10:04)

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