Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Halos of Perception
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Beautifully poised return from Lisa Lerkenfeldt with this six song suite reflecting on space, time and identity. Utilising piano, cello and a significant amount of tape delay, Lerkenfeldt moves away from the more drone-informed work of her previous record, Collagen, towards the decayed ambience of early Markus Popp/Oval/Alvo Noto et al and the general aesthetic universe of Mille Plateaux - indeed, album centrepiece, 'The painted room', could have easily found a way on to the seminal Clicks and Cuts compilation series. Collagen was a stately work, but Halos of Perception does feel like a big step forward for Lerkenfeldt, a more coherent realisation of a concept that's rich in texture and conceptual suggestion. Panda Wong's accompanying press notes make reference to The Caretaker, and while I don't think the two artists sound a great deal like each other here, they do share a similar elegiac quality, how the past bleeds into our present, time dilates and experience is rendered in memory. I'm desperately trying not to use the phrase 'liminal spaces', though if i were to, you'd immediately understand - if you're calling a record Halos of Perception, then it's no surprise there's a concern with imagined vistas and experiences. It's a view worth sharing for a moment.
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