Thankfully, there is the web for translating Latin, as mine is quite rusty after not using it for about 40 years. ‘Me vexat pede’ should mean something like ‘it annoys me at the foot’ or more freely ‘my foot itches’. And that means as much as ‘being bothered by something trivial’. But the whole CD is filled with Latin references so there must be many trivial things pissing William van Gorder off. “Me vexat pede” is the second album by Worth on the German Aussaat label, which is quite a loud label. Circle of Shit, L’Eclipse Nue, Entre Vifs … Not the stuff you want to listen to when you’re crocheting.
The album consists of 11 tracks with a total playtime of under 40 minutes. Five tracks are under tw minutes and two are over 7 minutes. My first thought was that it’s all over the place, and many of those short ones are like amuses in a luxury restaurant. They taste good but are too small to give you a feeling of fulfilment. The longer ones are well-thought-out compositions or explosions of sound. What kind of sound? From what I thought, I could recognise it’s a plethora of ‘stuff’. Contact mics, pedals, loops, probably some prepared sounds on tapes for that nice tape compression effect, and then all those frequencies through a mixer and EQ.
Yes, a lot is happening, even or maybe especially in the short tracks. Those come out like the experiments that William used to explore different setups. Because of that, I like the short ones, but the long ones are more interesting because they offer time and space for a better flow and development. I’ll ask Frans to include 2 of the shorter tracks in this week’s Podcast so you can listen to it and see what I mean. Besides that, this album is loud and in your face. Not much vocals but a lot of noise.
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