Matthewdavid // Mycelium Music 2xLP

アメリカ・LAの老舗オールジャンルレーベルLeaving Records主宰Matthewdavidが、2023年2月にリリースした2枚組レコードです。

音の粒子が弾けるポストニューエイジ・アンビエント12曲を収録。

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Includes DL code. 12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Norns 05:13
2. Liquidity 05:18
3. Perpetuity 04:52
4. Phased Moon 02:52
5. Zithertronica 03:05
6. Grain 06:04
7. X 04:46
8. Spills 05:02
9. Zithercelium 04:56
10. MLR 04:17
11. Zithertronix 05:13
12. Harvest 04:15

Text excerpt by Emmett Shoemaker, May 7th 2022 :

"...How might the Mycelium sing? Where other sound artists might be tempted to capture the phenomena, reaching for a field recorder, MatthewDavid responds with a succinct, impressionistic, and diaristic suite of “songs” (although, as with the mycelium itself, one cannot easily distinguish where one song/organism ends and another begins).


Norns, Mycelium Music’s opening track, is named, appropriately, after the script-based, open-source instrument with which much of the record was composed. Allowing for both improvisation and accident, the Norns (whose online DIY community MatthewDavid has long supported) has here been utilized to produce generative music in multiple senses: autosynthetic, yes, but also, music that sounds like cyclical generation and decay. Sonically rendered, Mycelium Music conjures a familiar form of the uncanny, not dissimilar to time-lapse photography — a single toadstool stalk bursts from the ground, blooms, then swiftly dies away.


And of course it is beautifully textural. And of course there are moments and hits here to thrill the old heads. But what really does strike one, on first listen, is that the record is a product of serious contemplation on the meaning, the problems, and the promises of interdependence. Having started a family, having lost biological and chosen parents, having struggled with aging and embodiment, having launched a record label and cultivated (against all the usual odds and incentives) an enriching and expanding community of musicians, artists, and enthusiasts, MatthewDavid’s fingernails are pretty damn caked with the soil of life. Sifting through these experiences, Mycelium Music is a humble offering that eschews the ego of the DJ/Producer myth. It is a record predicated upon careful attention. And, to paraphrase Simone Weil, attention is a form of prayer."

Artist : Matthewdavid

Label : Leaving Records