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SCOTT-BUCCLEUCH, RUSS / SIGTRYGGUR BERG SIGMARSSON / ANDREW SHARPLEY - Mask of Cheerful

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Test Recordings # 14 Release Year: 2021 Note: highly experimental nine collage works (55 min) = all kinds of field recordings, object sounds, instrumental / voice sounds (+ reaktor synths) were collected and at the end mixed by ANDREW SHARPLEY, the long active British experimentalist once in STOCK HAUSEN & WALKMAN; it's fascinating how very concrete snippets collide with electronic sounds and micro-drones, always in search for the truly anomalous arrangement; very much recommended for discoverers of the non-ordinary!! digipack with weird collage pictures, probably pretty limited Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 More Info Ross Scott-Buccleuch: tapes, objects, found sounds. Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson: sounds, percussion, voice Andrew Sharpley: reaktor synths Edited and Mixed by Andrew Sharpley, Dec 2020 - Jan 2021 Mastered by Richard Scott Front cover collage by Ross Scott-Buccleuch https://testrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mask-of-cheerful "Here we have two collaborations with Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, with, in one case, his favourite collaborator, BJ Nilsen. Let's start with the other one, which sees him working with Ross Scott-Buccleuch (tapes, synths, field recordings) and Andrew Sharpley (sounds, edit, mix), while Sigmarsson is responsible for tapes, sounds and voice. The first we know from his work as Dirunal Burdens and his Steepgloss label, while Sharpley once was a member of Stock, Hausen & Walkman. The three of them already worked together, on the CDR 'Ghost Of Dada', released by Chocolate Monk last year (not reviewed here). As far as I know, it is quite common for Sigmarsson to do the final mix of the music, but in this case, it was Sharpley. From what I understand the process to be, is that everybody brought a lot of sound to the table and from the resulting ingredients Sharpley stewed this dish, perhaps adding a few rounds of processing to the mix, but most likely perhaps not. Just bring it all to whatever multi-track program/device of choice and shift the material around for a considerable amount of time and see what that brings, in terms of composition and, perhaps also, in the terms of variation. While to some this kind of music might be something like 'anything goes', I would think this is not the case. What Sharpely does here is creating a work of modern musique concrète qualities. Through endless cutting, editing and pasting of sounds, he created nine pieces of music collage and demontage. There is a great variety in the sound material here, spoken word, synthesizer sounds, the kitchen sink and some rather more obscure sounds, and the results are loud and harsh, soft and intimate and anything in between. Occasionally a loop goes on a bit too long or being just a bit too much of a plain loop, but I found this a great work altogether. Very classic, I thought, in a sort of late 80s cassette networking sort of way." [FdW/Vital Weekly]