SPOOL ENSEMBLE – LONG
DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 12 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)
Spool Ensemble come
from North Carolina were they operate in the realms of improvised music. In the past the group has acted as something
of a collective taking in over a dozen musicians to “achieve its aim”. Currently for this release the ensemble sees
Aaron Bachelder and Matt Smith on software and Michael Thomas Jackson on
hardware. Its laboratory stuff.
For this project Spool
Ensemble often sound like an old school arcade video machine coupled with a slinky
as a storm is whipped up in the exterior.
It is the stuff of juvenile nightmares, threats of energy cuts and being
left alone with darken parimeters. In
many ways this is subtly horrific stuff insinuating menace and the moving of
mental furniture.
What Spool Ensemble
brings to the party is an almost Hitchcock degree of heightened tension. Indeed their efforts seem to physically lift
the pieces/compositions like an orchestra blowing flat out/full on. The engine motoring this process is not one
necessarily fuelled on joy.
As the distinct
malfunction continues extended elements of technology emit flawed progress that
sonically resemble a droid burning up and fizzing out. The results sound alien, a language with
hidden meaning and feasibly unpleasant thoughts. I find myself no longer able to take this noise at face value
instead reading far too deeply into long game.
A final dose of
disorientation closes the EP as the vehicle appears to lose motion and vividly
echoes modern failing. The piece is
blunt and difficult to pick at. Snap. Put it in the bin.
Thesaurus moment:
decline.
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