Nicholas Maloney // Lignum Muzek TAPE

Invisible CityやFaltなどの物音〜ドローンレーベルから作品を発表してきたアイルランドの音響作家Nicolas Maloneyが、2020年11月にアメリカ・メイン州の実験レーベルenmossedより75部限定でリリースしたカセットです。

ドローン5曲を収録。DLコード付属。廃盤です。

Edition of 75. Professionally dubbed type I cassettes with silkscreened j-cards using water-based ink on recycled paper.

From Jackson, Mississippi, Nicholas Maloney carves a vision of lo-fi atmosphericana. Though there is some use of traditional instruments, like guitar, organ and banjo, Lignum Muzek functions more like a weather vane. Field recordings of natural spaces around Mississippi result in bouts of almost-silences, which are less sound, more detectable pressure change. But then there’s the occasional insect, a sheet metal’s melody. A barely recognizable trombone, the sigh of trees.

Minimalist in arrangement but planetary in room size, the longform tracks move between spatial experiment and texture-as-mood. Wood has a heavy presence on the album—Maloney saws it, throws it off a roof onto a shed. But musique concrète is just one of the tape's dimensions. There are affective swells, romantic and buoyant, but still they retain a climatological sensibility. 
- enmossed

Artist : Nicholas Maloney

Label : Enmossed