LESCALLEET, JASON — Electronic Music
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Great rumbling drone-noise record, four movements full of atmospheric crackles, hisses & vibrations! Comes on grey-marbled vinyl !
“jason lescalleet is best known for collaborations with nmperign (greg kelley and bhob rainey) and thomas ankersmit. electronic music finds lescalleet working in his "standard" environment, running short loops of tape between several ancient recorders, working up a fairly dense sound matrix and then augmenting those sounds electronically on the fly. "morphology" begins with isolated scratches that eventually become engulfed in deep rumbles, sounding like a thunderstorm raining pellets of static. "litmus tape" is more of a midrange roar, as though one is hearing passing jets through ten feet of concrete. like much of lescalleet's best work, it has a density that allows the listener to return time and time again with the surety of hearing new elements on each occasion. "accidental-oriental" begins innocently and softly before suddenly leaping into a kind of metallic wash, another sort of roar that brings to mind ball bearings rolling in steel basins, but muted to remove the treble. it builds to a speaker-endangering climax right at the end that leads directly into yet another inferno, the concluding "beautiful whore." the tone shifts to something darker here, the taped burblings taking on the character of threatening noises emerging from fissures in the walls of a lightless path. it finally explodes into shards of its constituent elements, closing the album with an unsettling entropic feel.” [label info]
“jason lescalleet is best known for collaborations with nmperign (greg kelley and bhob rainey) and thomas ankersmit. electronic music finds lescalleet working in his "standard" environment, running short loops of tape between several ancient recorders, working up a fairly dense sound matrix and then augmenting those sounds electronically on the fly. "morphology" begins with isolated scratches that eventually become engulfed in deep rumbles, sounding like a thunderstorm raining pellets of static. "litmus tape" is more of a midrange roar, as though one is hearing passing jets through ten feet of concrete. like much of lescalleet's best work, it has a density that allows the listener to return time and time again with the surety of hearing new elements on each occasion. "accidental-oriental" begins innocently and softly before suddenly leaping into a kind of metallic wash, another sort of roar that brings to mind ball bearings rolling in steel basins, but muted to remove the treble. it builds to a speaker-endangering climax right at the end that leads directly into yet another inferno, the concluding "beautiful whore." the tone shifts to something darker here, the taped burblings taking on the character of threatening noises emerging from fissures in the walls of a lightless path. it finally explodes into shards of its constituent elements, closing the album with an unsettling entropic feel.” [label info]