The best thing about reviewing small labels is the pearls you sometimes get to hear. Artists you’ve never heard of before, or only in a completely different setting, or … Just new names or that one cinematic ambient release that brings back memories of some works you heard in the past … The Deep Bleed falls in the latter category and brings back memories of music in the decade around Y2K. The Deep Bleed is Mark Hjorthoy from Vancouver, Canada, and this project is “a place to put the drone and art noise projects that I love to hear”, as the liner notes state.
There are two tracks on this 3″, the first being the 5-minute “If You Build Them” and the 15-minute title track. The first 3 minutes of that first track are quite static and basically an orchestral chord movement on a synth. But after that, Mark starts adding the other layers in the composition and fooling around with that basic one, and within the 5 minutes, which is the track’s length, it develops into the perfect atmosphere for the ‘main event’ to land. Massive layers of pads with noisy sounds and a very special (spacious?) manipulated production bring me back. Cinematic isolationism. Over time, a few more layers are created and added or manipulated through the production process and the use of FX, but after 15 minutes, you have a smile. I really like this release as a whole!
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