Gryphon Rue - I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water

Highly nuaned latest long player from New York-based electroacoustic composer Gryphon Rue, who lends a painterly-like detail to a set of chirruping compositions that border the intersection between the ghostly bucolicism of Boards of Canada, the ambi-glitch of Markus Popp and otherworldly concreté unspoolings of Nurse With Wound. As such a set of comparisons might infer, I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water is of dream-logic construction, where the playing of various instruments - be they xylophones, flutes or violins - intersect with unusual electronic textures in ways that seem hard to predict but leave marked impressions. There's a perfect case in point around two-thirds in, where the almost symphonic zither-like sounds of 'The Other Green Worm' cresecndo to an ecstatic close before introduing the somewhat unsettling psychoactive murmurs of the 14-minute long 'An Octave Below Thunder'.  One doesn't foreshadow the other, yet seens to suggest its own internal logic, unmoored and adrift out there in the dreamzones of unconcious sounds where just about anything is possible and you're left to keep guessing. I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water came to me via Kai Althoff, and like his Aber Mich Macht's Traurig record, works best by positioning itself just outside of comprehnsion. Long may we be confused. 
 
FFO: Boards of Canada, Kai Althoff, Oval, Nurse With Wound, Engelhardt/Seef/Davis Coop