A whole batch of releases was sent to us from the 'No Part Of It'-label from Arvo Zylo. Don't expect to find everything being reviewed at once. It's just too much for that, and it would make me slack it, which I refuse. After these two releases, there are still more releases where these came from. So have you subscribed to the Vital Weekly mailing already?
The second one for this Leslie Keffer-related batch of releases is "Reverie", which turns out to be her second album. No, she has done way more than just two albums, but these recordings were made back in 2003, right after her first album "Dielectric Lull" was released. Somehow these tracks never were released before, so they give a nice insight into how she developed as an artist. The one-hour 8-track album is created with sounds from the radio: It's a magical thing we all know, especially when you turn the dial to frequencies that should not have any signal. The magick of the aether, waves becoming sound, a means of communication between entities at long distances or even different planes of existence.
As said, eight tracks hold the middle between drones, ambience, noise and static, with what I suspect here and there is a synthesized sound and/or the human voice. They generate a barren landscape of sounds, where it's never silent but never really happy or cosy. This is a good thing because, for comfortable and relaxed feelings, there is enough shitty pop music being produced which also played on the radio those days - but Leslie manages to bypass all of them.
As a musician, I've also played with the radio as a sound source. It is quite impressive how she captures all the different tracks' layers with radio as the basic source. Deep basses and higher-pitched layers in the drones, sudden squeaks properly placed through editing and very well-executed production. I can only imagine how people reacted to her first album, being a 'newbie' back then, trying to find her sound ... Impressive.
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