Webbed Hand Records’ first release of 2006 is an anthology of recordings by the label’s founder, C.P. McDill. This selection represents the spectrum of his sound art projects from 1993 to 2005, excluding the long-form (CD-length) ambient recordings.
“Water Wind” is a long-form expedition in abstract beats and textures, cutting across several subgenres of experimental electronica, including IDM, electroacoustic, d-n-b, glitch and ambient. Ever shifting and mutating, this composition keeps the attention riveted from beginning to end.
This new electroacoustic longform piece by Andrew Latham’s Ghostheory project takes Webbed Hand’s “Rain” concept in a darker, more industial direction. A shifting palette of drones, clangs, inscrutable noises, and static are all blurred together into a hypnotic journey that could be either soothing or stimulating, depending on your volume settings.
A long-form collaboration between Thomas Park (aka Mystified) and Stephen Philips (of Dark Duck Records).
Sound artist Mika Bjorklund’s latest project is a journey by evocation to the abandoned island city of Gunkanjima, which for a while during the 20th Century contained a heavily populated mining settlement. This desolate place still has its apartment towers, factories, schools and other building intact but crumbling.
What more need I say? Heath Yonaites and K.M. Krebs, both figures who loom large and formidable in the field of imaginative/speculative sound art, have collaborated on an album. Ideal for headphones, or if you are blessed with a really great speaker setup, an environment you could immerse yourself in and swim around.
An hour-long transmission from the celestial entity known as Tribe of Astronauts. A pleasing wash of white noises, drones, and other soundscape elements.
The album Risen consists a pair of long-form works by Mika Bjorklund, a young Finnish sound artist who has previously released Nocturne [wh054] on Webbed Hand. This is definitely headphones-in-the-dark music — real introvert listening.
The Light Will Fill the Darkness and Obliterate It is a poetic and richly textured work by Canadian sound artist K.M. Krebs. These tracks are blended together into a shifting exploration as evocative and powerful as the titles they bear. I find this to be excellent headphone music, and with eyes closed I am easily abducted into very strange realms.
This unusual experimental work is a group of blended variations on a simple structure and limited set of tones and sounds. From such a small tonal palette, great variety and depth can nonetheless be attained. The Tribe of Astronauts enjoyed making this, and you will enjoy listening.