Debut presentation of vocal manipulations and abstractions in the Lovely Music/Alga Marghen tradition by composer Thelma Cappelo and mixed by recent Permanent Draft associate, Aude Van Wyller. Said to be written with the fairy-world of A Midsummer Night's Dream as its central inspiration, Capello constructs an abstracted ghostly zone of sound-poetics that mostly resist easy interpretation in favour of something more textural and ethereal. How this exactly relates to a play I have zero time for is mercifully unclear, and Midnight instead triumphs on the basis of its own adventurous and free-floating spirit, conceptually linked to, say, the vocal synthesis of Lucy Duncombe and Feronia Wennborg's Oh Joy, How I Missed You (sans the obvious concessions to AI), emotionally lands somewhere between Grouper and Delphine Dora, and spiritually descends from the likes of Annea Lockwood, Ruth Anderson and Robert Ashley. As debut albums go, it's most certainly a bold one.
FFO: Lucy Duncombe, Grouper, Delphine Dora, Annea Lockwood
