Cassette
We're big with the cassettes at the moment, aren't we? Format de jour for the ever active underground... Make sense though - move quicker for cheaper, take more risks. Which is sort of what is happening here on Sunk, the debut outing of Gilgul, the latest project from the fella behind Genghis Cohn, an act you'll likely remember for their often perverse and abstract avant electronic manipulations. That muse is pursued a touch more over these thirteen mostly short-form pieces which amalgamate field recordings, musique concrete found sound, improv instincts, what i thought were ethnographic loops/samples but i've been informed are not, and a very iconoclastic approach to structure and form. There's a touch of the psychogeographic to the whole set, something not wholly unlike Malvern Brume/The Sprigs, but with the sense of the abstract dialed up a notch again - a cubist entanglement of the world around. The one word press release, so to speak, describes Sunk as "an ethnography of sunken land", the meaning of which i can't quite parse but somehow sounds just about spot on. Music that seems transmitted from the mulch. The mulch of what you might not wanna know...
