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B°TONG (B*TONG / B-TONG/ BTONG) - Monastic

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Reverse Alignment RA-36 Release Year: 2017 Note: MONASTIC (='klösterlich') is the companion release to 'The long Journey' on the same label =>; from various field recordings uncanny soundscapes and strangely reverberating acoustics are formed, resulting in long one nightmarish, unescapable ambience realm which seems to have no beginning or ending, going on in endless circles.. Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info "Since getting to know Chris Sigdell from a distance in 2010, sending the label a promo copy of ”The Great Disintegrator”, and onwards recognising the release of his project b°tong ‎ through labels such as Attenuation Circuit, Greytone and Silken Tofu, we met up in the flesh in 2016. Since then the label invited him to master last years releases from Ajna, Valanx and Dronny Darko and now releases his project b°tong’s two new albums ”Monastic” and ”The Long Journey”. ”Monastic” is a configuration of field-recordings that Chris Sigdell recorded together with his companions Benny Braaten and Bertrand Gaude in 2010, while having a day off on tour. In the hands of Chris Sigdell ”Monastic” forms spooky and disturbing waves of sound, dripping carelessly down the spine, crushing rocks. Don’t listen properly, behave inaccurate. Don’t be obnoxious, be quiet and feel the concrete. CD w/ 4-panel digipack limited to 300 copies. Released 29th September 2017." www.reverse-alignment.se "The other CD is all based on field recordings Sigdell made at Landbouwbelang in Maastricht along with Benny Braaten and Betrand Gaude. Whatever you can record at Landbouwbelang (agricultural interest?) is not entirely clear, I’d say, as whatever Sigdell does with his equipment, it is all transformed a notch or two. With both of these releases I have no idea what it is that Sigdell uses, but the best I can make of it is that it is all a mixture of analogue and digital equipment. No words are used on ‘Monastic’, but there is plenty of reverb and sounds of water dripping, so I would think it has a more cave like atmosphere. It also sounds a bit louder and grittier than ‘The Long Journey’; it is more like being trapped in a machine hall, I’d think, than in a space ship. It’s the yin to yang here, the noisier ‘Monastic’ versus the atmospheric journey of the other. I would think that’s the reason for releasing these on separate discs; the different approaches require different discs. My personal preference is for ‘The Long Journey’, but I see the fine quality of both." [FdW/Vital Weekly]