Cassette
Mega 90 minute long collection of glassy synth experimentation from Berlin-based debutante C.D. Noé, which will pique all kinds of interests for anyone with even half an appreciative ear for the likes of TRjj, early Black Dog Productions or the incredible Brin & Josiah Steinbrick collaboration, Bliss Place. Noé shares a label with both the aforementioned TRjj and Inner Cop Avoidance, and Ornamental Hermits manages to imagine a space between the quixotic electronics of the former and the psychoactive gamelan of the latter, which over an extensive hour and a half ends up quite the psychedelic experience. Jonas Torstensen of Franciska has described the collection as akin to the "unfold(ing)... of a living system" and it's as on the money as anything I could otherwise think to say, multiple synth melodies emerging and retreating in a beguiling symbiotic dance, at once both cerebral and joyous. Few records of this kind arrive so effortlessly formed and instantly engaging.
FFO: TRjj/ii, Brin & Josiah Steinbrick, Black Dog Productions, Silzedrek, Gossiwor, Gewissen
