Howard Stelzer, … Just like a turntablist, he plays around with cassettes. Using the fast-forward button, but also by placing the cassette players on metal plates, he creates a world of his own. But he works best when playing improvised music with others. As this is one piece, recorded ‘2004/2005’, I assume it’s a collage of various recordings, including pieces he played with Richard Francis (laptop), Stefan Neville (drums and tapes) and Clinton Watkins (guitar). Stelzer creates thick, densely sound fields of highly obscured sounds. Rather lo-fi in approach, but it’s an intense sound, one that has many detailed sounds that work together on many levels. It’s hard to categorize this as noise (although it has elements thereof), improvisation (but it’s certainly more composed by collating the various elements together) or as drone music, even when it has a certain drone like quality. As references to the latter, one could think of people that use close miking, such as Af Ursin, Yannick Dauby or Micheal Northam. Played loud, this is certainly an intense affair, growing into a menacing affair.
Vital Weekly
Источник: lastfm.ru
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