Upset The Rhythm presents…
DEAN SPUNT
Tuesday 12 November
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8acfa797c7d
DEAN SPUNT’s new album
for Drag City is titled ‘Basic Editions’. It’s an excursion in
electronic sound that unpacks his fascination with language – in this
case, the syntax of systems and processes. By turns meditative,
compulsive and consumptive, Basic Editions distills a 64 voice
module through a headfull of ideas – somewhat like pouring a cornucopia
of possible ambient moods and EZ listening impulses backwards through a
funnel, inspiring a deceptively absurd rainbow of soul to spray out the
other end.
With this new release, Dean identifies his process as “using
sounds, rather than making sounds”. This approach to music-making is a
train of thought that’s been rolling out from the far horizon of the
past for ages now – but for Dean, whose previous works within and
without No Age depended on their making of sounds, it’s a fresh work
stance. Given, however, No Age’s traditional further manipulation of
their own sounds (via loops and treatments), Basic Editions delivers
further unexpected hard-rights and lefts in the non-aesthetic aesthetic
that has defined Dean’s path over the past two decades. Steering toward
wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colourfully across the stereo
azimuth, Dean creates a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges
upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic.
https://deanspunt.bandcamp.com/music
