STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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August 23, 2010

Bob Bellerue/Jarrett Silberman – Amplified Piano Duets one-sided 12”/CDR (Anarchymoon)

Without giving much of a clue as to process or instrumentation, there’s still a bit more at stake between this duo collaboration and other PE/noise experiments of its type. There doesn’t seem to be any mixer/source abuse here; we’re led, from the title, to believe that this is a capturing of treated piano, though it doesn’t sound much like it. Excepting the possibility that the piano strings have been mic’d and processed, one normally doesn’t get this much sustain out of a piano, even if they hold down the damper pedal. What surfaces is this noisy, yet warm and somehow harmonic buzzing drone, and if I had to say what it reminds me of, it would be the sound of a tractor with a lawn-mower attachment and vacuum bagger, cutting the grass of my parents’ backyard. More than any other noise recordings, this one throws off the a late summer afternoon ambiance, with the sun dying down and dinner being readied, when my dad was rounding the back corners, and was therefore further away from my bedroom window. It shares the same consistency and tonal qualities, and sounds like it could run forever. With these memories in tow, this becomes an exceptional and meaningful piece of music, though I’m not sure if many people would agree with me on this, or could see the suburban POV from where I’m coming. One cut on the vinyl meets two more on the included CDR. 200 copies. (http://anarchymoon.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

1 year ago • Notes