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Clinker - On The Other Side (for L. Cohen) (Dragon’s Eye Recordings)

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 09:07 PM PDT

on the other side

In processing the voice of Leonard Cohen beyond recognition, sound artist Gary James Joynes liberates it from structure and narrative development, and uses it, alongside analog synthesizers, to induce in the listener a suspended listening, wherein its intimacy doesn’t absorb or placate but pushes one back into one’s own multi-colored memories.

Cohen’s breathy bass tones are most readily noticeable in the opening moments, where they unfurl in long tendrils alongside sparse but carefully conceived accompaniment. The groans and strained overtones continue to twist around subliminally felt mantras for the first ten minutes of this forty-two minute set, and while pleasing in their ability to trigger memories, its the unexpected excursion into the dark intensity of the slow-burning, sultry drone that occupies the mid-section of the work, as eerie as it is erotic, that really ensnares the attention.

Near the end Cohen’s voice, which sounds not wholly unlike a Gregorian chant, seeps through the pores of the piece once more, broken with spare crackles and distended by Joynes own high-pitched inflection. The album, apart from effectively demonstrating Joynes ability to render a small clutch of component parts almost endlessly flexible, thus making a fine example of high creativity from basic means, represents a strong extension of Cohen’s apparent interest in the light and dark elements of human experience.

Max Schaefer

Extended Playlist 1603209 - www.2ser.com 107.3FM

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 01:44 AM PDT

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EP 200!
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DJ Foundation - Sitting In Gitmo
("Paradise" - 2009, Metal Postcard)

Harmonic 313 - Galag-A
("When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence" - 2008, Warp)

Al Thumm - Garden Spring
("Earthbound" demo - 2008) #

Wagon Christ - Shadows
("Sorry I Make You Lush" - 2004, Ninja Tune)

Tarwater - To Describe You (The Third Eye Foundation Mix)
("Remix EP" - 1999, Roomtone)

Directorsound - Before The March
("A Fifty Gallon Drum of Savage Customs Fresh Flesh and Random Pop" compilation - 2007, Brother Sister)

Galaxy Fuzz Band - Europa Bloodstream
("Galaxy Fuzz Band" self-released - 2008, Galaxy Fuzz Band) #

Broadcast - Microtronics 14
("Microtronics Volume2: Stereo Recorded Music For Links And Bridges" ltd CD - 2005, Warp)

F.S. Blumm & Friends - Leben läuft (Zimmerversion)
("Sesamsamen" - 2004, Kabouter Plop)

Hirasakana Oyogu - Earth Universe
("Hirasakana Oyogu" - 2009, Brother Sister)

Circlesquare - Music For Satellites
("Songs About Dancing And Drugs" - 2009, !K7)

Front 242 - Operating Tracks
("Geography" - 1982, Himalaya)

The Human League - Year Of The Jet Packs
("The Golden Hour Of The Future" demo - 2008, Black Melody)

Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel To The Boss
("The Voice Of America" - 1980, Rough Trade)

Melbient - Headpace
("Melbient" - 2003, Melbient) #

Apollon/Muslimgauze - Inject
("Dark Thoughts" - 1998, D.O.R.)

Harmonia - Ueber Ottenstein
("Live 1974" - 2007, Grönland)

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