Malvern Brume - Pacing The Hollow Path

Freshly minted imprint TEETH debuts with this latest collection of psychogeographic imagingings/wanderings from Rory Salter's Malvern Brume alias. Salter's been at this kind of thing for a while now, frequently weaving a disorientating tapestry of sound art, found sound and layered electronics in a painterly manner. Something is being got at here, just what it is not quite within reach. Nonetheless, i'll give it a go... If his work as the Sprigs actively speaks to the countryside, then what he's doing with Malvern Brume, and very specifically on this new EP, may relate to the city and a very particular experience of it. Through the concertined hum of palimpsestic electronics, field recordings and contextless human commentary we're delivered a London of twilight hours and in-between zones, of the purgatorial spaces of cemeteries and outer districts where you may find yourself caught between memory and the moment. A kind of London Inner Orbital if you like, traversing some of the arterial lines of the city, trying to remember - or even find! - a place within it. The result is strangely hypnotic, lost in someone else's experience while also recalling your own. Needless to say, as smart and engaging as ever from Salter.