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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January 8, 2010

Andrew Zealley – Themes & Variations LP (Tourette/How To Explain Silence To A Dead Hare)

Andrew Zealley LP

A beautiful collection has finally surfaced of composer Andrew Zealley’s serene soundtracks all put side by side. This record collects various pieces culled from four years (2005-2009) of selected video, film installations and performance music showcases in galleries and museums across the globe. The first few tracks were the original rough draft and complete compositions to be used in a video work by artist Scott Treleaven, documenting the pandrogeny project of Genesis & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. These pieces elegantly correspond to the visuals, using a soft ambient feel to convey specific images of counterculture, esoteric homo-occultism and gender bending debate. Zealley is well versed in the use of quiet, string based drone with soft electronics that prevent the work from becoming dull or repetitive, utilizing various synthesizer chords delayed over and over, with what sound like futurist melodica interludes. Attempts to break up the understood traditional rules of composition are handily smashed. The other pieces play on this same theme, but tinker with the human voice, not so much for accompaniment but as a precise and necessary instrument, written specifically to compliment the works of artists Joey Medaglia, Luis Jacob, and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. (http://www.touretterecords.com)
(Ryan Martin)

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