Wayne Longer (Adderall Canyonly) and Min Roach (4X27) team up again for some karmic suede; headphone manufacturers see a sudden spike in demand. Rare earth materials are mined at an ever unsustainable pace as China runs short on tweeters. Cities like Omaha, Des Moines and St.Louis settle ever so much more into the leather bottoms of their riverbeds as the oscillations and tessellations weave together for an even deeper footprint, down, down as we sink, slowly, oh so slowly in the luxurious, smoldering heat and lit from below we push off, and over.
The "modern" in modern art has been absently browsing the same wrinkled magazines in the etymological waiting room longer than many of us have been alive. You know the routine: Le Corbusier, glass walls, teak, chrome, TV dinners, space satellites, men being Men. The vanguard of modern music made its nests high in ivory towers, dotting staff paper in scotch and cigar smoke, or making mad science with modulars and mainframes.
Min Roach and Wayne Longer have spared no expense founding The Department of Harmonic Integrity, a capital-m Modern soundscape sweatshop that rejuvenates its deep roots. Lavishly appointed with the best midcentury consuetudes, the Dept. introduces husky cold war electroacoustics to the contemporary joys of perestroika, Industrial Light & Magic, feminism, and Vangelis. The retrofuture is now. Or later.
Min roach is a post-colonial living in South Portland, ME where she enjoys food and oxygen, amongst other things. Wayne Longer has some similar and some non-similar interests whilst living in a post-cool Portland, OR.
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Having been a big collector of anything I can find on the wonderful Constellation Tatsu label the artwork alone of this release caught my attention. The cover art reminded me of those sci-fi paperback novels from the 1960's and 1970's that would flood my local 2nd hand book shops growing up that would take me to other worlds. Right from the first listen I was reminded of the mid 70's Virgin Years era Tangerine Dream, Klause Schulze, Jean Michel-Jarre, and Ashra. This is a special release and should be put out on vinyl or CD someday but in the meantime cassette or digital download is the only way to go which is fine with me as I still have several tape players lying around.
This cassette opened up many other doors for me as I started buying other cassettes, vinyl LPs, and CDs by Majeure and lead me to discover Zombi (2) whom he is 1/2 half of (the other member is Steve Moore). I've even picked up a few releases by Steve Moore and I love it all so as you can see this one cassette was a monster of a release for me. Pick up a copy if you are able locate one as this cassette is long out of print with only small amount pressed. You can thank for me later. I like all the tracks equally on this release. Normally on my reviews I will break down favorite tracks but this is a stunner from start to finish.
Eugene Sotela
Visionist showcases vocals for the first time on his Mute debut, featuring collabs with members of Circuit des Yeux, Black Midi and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 5, 2021
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