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MITES - Something to ponder upon for a restless Soul like you

Format: CD-R
Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS71
Release Year: 2011
Note: newcomer from Israel doing droney rather rough low-fi improvisations based on tapes & field recordings... to discover ! Full-colour inkjetprint cover lim. /numbered ed. 100 copies
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"Coming seemingly out of nowhere, like a well kept secret, mites is the moniker under which Grisha Shakhnes, an Israeli musician, has chosen to assemble his peculiar sounds... regular frequentation of a local venue called Zimmer, virtually the only place for experimental music, nurtured a growing love for the use of tapes, and the analog way of doing things...frequent impro sessions with other people contributed to the elaboration of a sound identity...
Most of mites' soundworks so far rely on almost non edited, collaged live sets based i.a. on tapes studded mainly with field recordings... via the use of multiple cassette players, focused structures & juxtapositions spiced with a substrate of noise, his soundworks come out as being both rough edged, but also astutely sewn together and very organic...On his behalf so far, 3 self-released cdrs and a praised one on Alamut "nothing's gonna change"...

"something to ponder upon for a restless soul like you", his MS material rings out like a precious warning, or perhaps a philosophy precept...

Whispers circle in a confined room...
the same compulsive gestures, a feeling of discomfort...
A languorous clamouring rises up,
obsolete mechanisms lead their own life...
A grey veil, layers of dust...
a trembling unlit urban theatre...

Birds sing concrete songs within an eroded circus...
pervasive wind, & continuous unreeling...
abundance of life in the backyard...

Stones tell strange tales,
stories of lost freedom & deep fears...
A non-stop motion ending in friction,
the echo of the void...

"something to ponder upon for a restless soul like you" flows like a murky river straight into the haze...
emitting some flickers piercing the enveloping night...
and the day-to-day hum becomes roads to oblivion...

Lengthy rotations, eclipses, homespun sceneries retag our unconscious...
here is the seeding of vast questions, the triumph over superficiality,
a poetic act of weight..." [label info]

www.mysterysea.net


"Grisha Stakhnes is Mites, and he hails from Israel. I believe this is his first release in Europe. His music is based on field recordings, which is hardly a surprise if you end up on Mystery Sea, I'd say. But unlike other he tapes them to cassettes and then in a sort of live situation he plays those recordings and does a meta-collage of said recordings. That adds a certain rawness to the music, a kind of noisy-ness which is very nice, and something that is not heard a lot in this particular corner of the musical world. Of course its not really noise in a HNW kind of way, but its an electrical undercurrent which is quite loud at tomes such as in 'Well, C'mon, It's Just Snow', which may indeed sound like snow falling on an electric board. Mites plays all five, three of which are very lengthy, pieces in a minimal vein, slowly but steadily evolving to keep the attention of the listener. A work full of promise I'd say, room for improvement and some fascinating sound events. Raw and untamed, this is certainly something fresh in the world of field recording." [FdW/Vital Weekly]