A.Drift is Brendan Place, and he played a live show at the Warehouse Salon in Boston on the 30th of March of this year. And this is the recording of that show. Wouldn’t it be easy if I kept it by this simple description? Yes, it would, but I won’t do that. As a reviewer, I will try to give you the information you need – or didn’t know you needed – to make you curious enough to click these links or look for the sounds I just wrote about in the review. And honestly, I listened to this review a few times before writing about it. Because there are a few things that intrigue me.
This is a live recording, and a lot happens in the 20 minutes on this CDR. The set opens with drone sounds that slowly grow towards a rumbling, noisy atmosphere with some rhythmic patterns thrown in. But this is not dance music. Slowly, the patterns are shifting, and yes, there are rhythms – our structures, as I tend to call them – but it’s all so hectic, and there is such constant pushing noise in the mix that the rhythms should be considered the ‘melodic layer’. And then it gets worse and noisier until suddenly you realize what the title was all about. A few sounds appear in the mix, and a bass guitar is played. I don’t know if it’s Brendan, but the added vocals make this ending a bizarre cover version by Joy Division. “A.Live Transmission”, so we can close the circle.
A final remark is that this is the very first time a sneeze from the audience got its own line in the credits. The devil is in the details.
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