After reviewing a collab between CHEFKIRK and Crank Sturgeon earlier this year, I now get a chance to get acquainted with CHEFKIRK’s solo material. So this time: I AM PREPARED! 🙂 The research on him is already done, and I must say that I am very pleasantly surprised by this “Non-technical Introduction”. One 22-minute track is pushing the boundaries of the 3″ medium, but as the chef is also pushing the boundaries of musical styles, I wouldn’t have expected anything else.
Loopers/cycles of sound create layers which, with the correct amount of mind-altering substances, could be called rhythm. Let’s say it differently: When you’re drunk enough, this stuff is nearly danceable, although I doubt it was meant to be like that. Compared with the RDKPL release, the use of the looped background in this IDR batch makes it more coherent in the repetitive sounds (ED: no, I can’t think of anything else to confuse you anymore; I am as confused as you are now). Though after approximately 2/3’rd of the track, the rhythm’s continuity gets lost, something much more erratic, noisy, and complex. Mangled vocal and harsh feedback structures are added, and as suddenly as the till-then smooth track becomes noisy, it turns back into something almost ambient dronish with the occasional burst …
The release being entitled “A Non-technical Introduction” with one track named “Accidental Birds” makes me wonder if any birds were hurt with the composition of the track, accidentally, that is. Here in the Netherlands, a magpie was sitting on a branch looking at me through the window while listening. It flew away unharmed. Scared shitless by the sounds, yet unharmed.
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