Marcos Valle - Mentira / Me Libertei - 7-INCH SINGLE [7 inch Vinyl Disc]

Marcos Valle - Parraiba Nao E / Nao Quero Mai [7-INCH SINGLE] date 11/24/2017

Music for Intersecting Planes marks the first collaborative between cellist Leila Bordreuil and organist Kali Malone. Minimal in means yet expansive in effect, the music unfolds like beads on a thread, punctuated by silence and deep breaths. Shifting currents of air pressure emerge from the manually pumped organ, enriched by the cello's finely drawn harmonics to form a microscopic and granular perspective of timbre. Interference patterns spin the sound mass as Malone and Bordreuil play against the stillness of sine waves. Church bells ring in the distance. Undulating feedback gives rise to insistent calls from the organ before yielding to a tragic cello motif. The album then closes with the brief and jubilant pizzicato exclamation, InchEndless Dance of Eternal Joy.InchRecorded by candlelight at the Temple de SaintThéoduoe in La Tour-de-Peilz in Switzerland, the music balances patience and intensity, composition and chance, severity and tenderness. In this collaboration, new facets of both artists come to light Bordreuil's playing with heightened tonal and formal clarity, and Malone's organ work in it's most raw and textural form. Music for Intersecting Planes is a meeting of minds honoring the timeless intrigue of acoustic phenomena.

Bric-a-Brac is Death by Chocolate's third full-length following their eponymous debut and Shortlist Prize nominee Zap the World (confirming Iggy Pop as a fan) in the early 90s. Death by Chocolate's aesthetic foundation corners are firmly planted in an idealized novelty of mid-century modernism, especially early 60s abstract expressionism, definitely swinging 1967 Carnaby Street, a bit of the more fun elements of late 70s new/no wave and the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. There's also more than a hint of foodie-ism. Bric-a-brac is an aural scrapbook written, performed, recorded and produced by Death by Chocolate. Open it up...