Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants (Kranky KRANK131, 2009)
Kowalksy Gregg is a drone who openly professes her love for the tapes. The generation of the audio material drawn from careful combinations of recordings gathered in this way. The results of their manipulations, as they could prove who attended the recent presentation as part of the Aural Festival this year, not much to do with the preservation of an ideal lo-fi, but rather with the careful exploration of the textures provided mutants in their persistent degradation of the tapes.
"Tape Chants" meets six heartfelt invocations to Morpheus, constructed from the slow and careful overlapping of the records contained in cassettes. The expressions of tape rusty ally, little by little, the lower recesses issued by motors, oscillators and synthesizers in a deep whisper, massive, paralyzing. Brief flashes of melodies adorn each piece, but the constant is that brilliant tonal snake, unchanging, as if it were the musical spectrum that can sometimes torn out the engine wheezing tiring, to cables delirious buzz, vocals and piping that distracted mumble. "Tape Chants" unveils the beauty sweetly disembodied ghosts of electromagnetism, music leaking through the walls and mumbled that we start with your thoughts. (SS)
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