VITAL WEEKLY
Recently I reviewed two of his old archive releases (Vital Weekly 720 and 732) and its his turn to deliver a remix album. He has send a recording of 'one vibrating wire from an acoustic guitar, captured, sculptured and morphed into a buzzing pad of noise. Tiny details were added, xylophone, cello, double bass, electronics and the crumpled sound of household objects exploited and manipulated' to ten artists for a further deconstruction. The results are a varied bunch, very varied to my very surprise. The opening pieces by Simon Scott, Bluermutt and Sawako, may hint at the original (which can be found on 'Complex Tone Test' released by Kesh), with sampled rhythms, voices and keyboards making a sort of mild IDM music with lots of ambience, but then Jimmy Behan makes things even more ambient, whereas Francisco Lopez goes in some eleven minutes for the most radical deconstruction of all. The three pieces to follow (Isan, Justin Varis and Ian Hagwood & Danny Norbury) are all interested to work with the cello parts of the original as leading voice for their remix, whereas Richard Chartier (with nine minutes not much shorter than Lopez) probably does that too, but going in his own line of work with a beautiful extraction of a millisecond expanded, and He Can Jog closes with a nice warm minimalist electro tune, no beats included. A varied compilation indeed, but its in this variation that there is beauty. A great remix compilation: a fine example of possibilities. A rare thing! (FdW)