ghost and tape - Pardinyas (Dauw)
- The Slow Music Movement
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
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Ghost and tapes is a self taught guitarist, improviser and composer adept at modular synthesis, sampling and sound manipulation, and oddly for someone called Heine Cristensen lives in the north of Spain, about a weeks brisk walk along the Camino de Santiago from me.
Ambient music takes many forms, from the ignorable to the dark and menacing, unrepentantly electronic to acoustic and everything in-between, and this LP is definitely an in-betweener, but despite my natural inclination towards the nonabrasive, palliative end of the ambient spectrum this is something of a Thai massage, a mildly unsettling but ultimately relaxing affair, and I like it a lot.
The root cause of the unease are micro, and sometimes extended samples of gently distorted, not unpleasant machine noise that pepper the recording throughout, and which on their own would need a particular audience. However these sonic snippets are constantly cushioned between warm guitar snippets, other abstract and more melodic micro-sounds that constantly jostle with the mild unease, ultimately coming out on top to upset the noise fans and please the sofa dwellers.
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