...and kind reviews of nvp052 and 053

 

Big appreciation to Bauke van der Wal for his extremely kind words on the two new ballast releases in vital weekly.

 

He beautifully nailed the sound poetry angle I was exploring on Parry & Eliza: “If drones are made of layers with tones instead of notes, how would compositions sound if words were chosen instead of tones? … Do incoherent words together still form lyrics? Or maybe better: Do combined words always produce a text?”

Then for the dead edits release, karaoke power electronics, he dug into some solid parsing of what exactly constitutes power electronics, concluding with, “To sum things up: You're not only getting a CDR with an hour of sounds, you're also getting a 12" with it !!! It might be made of cardboard, but it's round. It doesn't have any grooves but well... I suspect then if (when?) you play it... The record might produce some great noise.”

(plot twist, eric and I think it does.)