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We’ve been eagerly anticipating this six-hour release since its announcement.
Issued on the French Sonoris label, an imprint that has provided similar multi-disc releases for Michèle Bokanowski, and Jim O’Rourke (both in stock, folks!), The Mild Temper offers the time and space Drumm’s work most definitely deserves.
Can’t think of another artist (and an American artist at that!) whose work has developed according to its own language, pacing, vocabulary and focus. Not noise. Or Improv. Or electroacoustic. STREAMLINE released a Drumm LP a few years back and the cover art featured a black and white picture of a sunken submarine, a spectral space none of us can access though the radar image reminds us that it’s most definitely there, and possibly even inhabited. Perfect articulation of Drumm’s artistic presence over the last 30+ years. Drumm even uses the boring and generic Bandcamp, a platform that provides the aesthetic freedom of Myspace, to his singular purpose. Admire this artist, folks.
As the one sheet for this 6CD box suggests, Drumm’s voice can best be described as subtlety and always evolving, sounds “appear restrained, held in a delicate balance between stasis and motion. Small shifts gradually alter the acoustic landscape as layers of frequencies emerge, recede and recombine […] Avoiding narrative and dramatic development [or thematic repetition or rhythm in any conventional sense!}, these works offer immersion in highly detailed sonic environments where every element contributes to the construction of a deeply absorbing listening space. Attention to texture, depth and duration forms the connective thread throughout.”
Definitely not a compilation, or a collection. Doesn’t feel right referring to this as an album either (and we are album people). The one-sheet’s use of the word “immersion,” a very popular current tag, feels mildly appropriate. These Cds feel more like installation art, offering ways of moving about and taking it all in from different positions, angles and vantage points.
Highest Recommendation, folks.
We’ve been eagerly anticipating this six-hour release since its announcement.
Issued on the French Sonoris label, an imprint that has provided similar multi-disc releases for Michèle Bokanowski, and Jim O’Rourke (both in stock, folks!), The Mild Temper offers the time and space Drumm’s work most definitely deserves.
Can’t think of another artist (and an American artist at that!) whose work has developed according to its own language, pacing, vocabulary and focus. Not noise. Or Improv. Or electroacoustic. STREAMLINE released a Drumm LP a few years back and the cover art featured a black and white picture of a sunken submarine, a spectral space none of us can access though the radar image reminds us that it’s most definitely there, and possibly even inhabited. Perfect articulation of Drumm’s artistic presence over the last 30+ years. Drumm even uses the boring and generic Bandcamp, a platform that provides the aesthetic freedom of Myspace, to his singular purpose. Admire this artist, folks.
As the one sheet for this 6CD box suggests, Drumm’s voice can best be described as subtlety and always evolving, sounds “appear restrained, held in a delicate balance between stasis and motion. Small shifts gradually alter the acoustic landscape as layers of frequencies emerge, recede and recombine […] Avoiding narrative and dramatic development [or thematic repetition or rhythm in any conventional sense!}, these works offer immersion in highly detailed sonic environments where every element contributes to the construction of a deeply absorbing listening space. Attention to texture, depth and duration forms the connective thread throughout.”
Definitely not a compilation, or a collection. Doesn’t feel right referring to this as an album either (and we are album people). The one-sheet’s use of the word “immersion,” a very popular current tag, feels mildly appropriate. These Cds feel more like installation art, offering ways of moving about and taking it all in from different positions, angles and vantage points.
Highest Recommendation, folks.