Prefer not putting any artist and/or LP into a corner, but the post-Rehberg Editions Mego releases really can be challenging. A/B’ing the records since 2021 against his presence/absence and the entire groundbreaking extant catalogue(s), well it’s all there sometimes.
Here is a reminder to shake free of that reverence for a bit, Klara Lewis’s amazing new Opening LP. The one-sheet does a nice job in terms of language, describing the album as “disfiguring sound into forms that remain recognizably song-like [but] reaches a new peak here … a deceptive recording with veiled melodies and clandestine bangers.” In short, an exceptional push forward in terms of musicality while still retaining the more electronic hard pivots, tone, mood and abstraction that has characterized so much of the Mego and Editions Mego catalog. It’s all quite beautiful b/w surprising.
Introducing acoustic instruments like ukulele and piano, then turning them on their side and, to echo the one-sheet, “disfiguring” sound and expectations. Field recordings and room tone play a particularly consistent role or theme throughout. A fantastic work mixing collagist techniques and dance music.
Particularly fond of the cover art, which may involve an isolated detail from ”En Masse” by Circa, which we just discovered now is a company in the “new wave of contemporary Australian circus, redefining the art form by showcasing how extreme physicality can forge powerful and emotive experiences […] relentless in […] push[ing] boundaries, blending movement, dance, theatre and circus.”
Circa’s description could easily apply to Opening too. Lewis provided sound design for the Circa piece, as documented here (at least in part).
Highly recommended, folks.
We have many, if not all, of Lewis’s other releases on Editions Mego in stock too.
Prefer not putting any artist and/or LP into a corner, but the post-Rehberg Editions Mego releases really can be challenging. A/B’ing the records since 2021 against his presence/absence and the entire groundbreaking extant catalogue(s), well it’s all there sometimes.
Here is a reminder to shake free of that reverence for a bit, Klara Lewis’s amazing new Opening LP. The one-sheet does a nice job in terms of language, describing the album as “disfiguring sound into forms that remain recognizably song-like [but] reaches a new peak here … a deceptive recording with veiled melodies and clandestine bangers.” In short, an exceptional push forward in terms of musicality while still retaining the more electronic hard pivots, tone, mood and abstraction that has characterized so much of the Mego and Editions Mego catalog. It’s all quite beautiful b/w surprising.
Introducing acoustic instruments like ukulele and piano, then turning them on their side and, to echo the one-sheet, “disfiguring” sound and expectations. Field recordings and room tone play a particularly consistent role or theme throughout. A fantastic work mixing collagist techniques and dance music.
Particularly fond of the cover art, which may involve an isolated detail from ”En Masse” by Circa, which we just discovered now is a company in the “new wave of contemporary Australian circus, redefining the art form by showcasing how extreme physicality can forge powerful and emotive experiences […] relentless in […] push[ing] boundaries, blending movement, dance, theatre and circus.”
Circa’s description could easily apply to Opening too. Lewis provided sound design for the Circa piece, as documented here (at least in part).
Highly recommended, folks.
We have many, if not all, of Lewis’s other releases on Editions Mego in stock too.
