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JACKMAN, DAVID (=ORGANUM) - Schining

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Die Stadt - DS133 Release Year: 2024 Note: another part in the JACKMAN / ORGANUM ELECTRONICS subscription series - the 7 parts build a greater piece of unique experimental minimalism: *Insgesamt scheinen die beiden ähnlichen, aber nicht ganz identischen Teile von “Schining” verglichen mit “Flames Of Fire” (etwas) meditativer und getragener zu sein, wenngleich der immer wieder einsetzende wuchtig klingende Gong allzuviel Kontemplation verhindert.* [African Paper] - lim. 500 copies Price (incl. 19% VAT): €18.00 More Info "The next in Die Stadt's Jackman/Organum series, continuing his persuit of the monolithic shifting structure. Beginning with similar sounds to "Flames Of Fire" - a metallic buzz and deep, resonating tone - Jackman shifts the pitch more with sharper buzzing and a greater use of gongs and bells. A shimmering mix, with the first half much heavier. On the second CD he opens the sound up more, with the dynamics giving an almost buoyant quality to the music. Leading off with the crashing gong, it's soon stripped back allowing a sustained, wavering tone to be in the forefront. The sound resembles what could be an organ but held for infinity. Just as it becomes mesmerising and hypnotic though, Jackman throws in the bells, with variations coming in rapid succession versus the otherwise slow and steady feel. Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve with excellent artwork by Jonathan Coleclough." "Music and musical releases can be controversial for many reasons. Lyrical content, shocking covers, too loud, too quiet: David Jackman’s music is controversial for none of these reasons. His music isn’t noisy or silent, with no lyrical content or a shocking cover. I am not on any discussion group online and never was, but I can imagine a discussion with the topic: “Is David Jackman doing the same thing over and over again?”. I don’t know the answer, but I can guess. We can say the last few releases (and I am discounting his Organum Electronics releases; they are in a different league) contain the same musical elements. I copy from my last review, “A drone, Shruti-like, some low gong sound, the occasional bang on the piano, a church bell and some crows flying overhead”. The crows may have flown away, but the other elements are there. I also wrote, “The drone is continuous here; the others appear irregularly. The whole work is slow and majestic. The music has a funeral aspect, like a black-and-white picture from an Edgar Allen Poe story. It is very similar to much of his recent work, and it is hard to figure out the difference(s). All of this fits my pop-art theory. I love this mystique and playing around with similar ideas and notions. I am sure this mystery will never be unravelled” On ‘Shining’ (is that a word? Google pushes forward ‘The Shining’), we have two of these works, and they are different, more than just the numbers 1 and 2 on the discs. On the second disc, the intervals appear quicker, and the disc is a few seconds shorter. Both pieces feel like a requiem mass in a church, complete with those church bells. And why is this one credited to David Philip Jackman? More mystery or willful obscure?" [Vital Weekly]