David Khan & Peter Wright - Confinement And Release (Apoplexy, 2001)

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1 Part One 23:09
2 Part Two 23:18

Limited to a mere 50 copies on CDR, confinement & release was recorded live in October, 2000. It features two tracks, each about 23 minutes in length. Their catalogue of instruments is impressive: David Khan performs on sampler, analogue keyboard, metal pipe, knives, concrete, oil drum and Balinese rainmaker, while Peter Wright performs on bowed electric guitar, electric razor, digital effects, screwdriver and cymbal. As they describe it in the liner notes, these pieces are all about polarities, an exploration "of boundaries imposed and relieved and of the contrast between abstract and concrete viewpoints in both life and art." In the first track, an expanse of sparse, metallic sounds opens up, the sounds appearing and disappearing in slow movements. Silence and resonance figure largely in this piece, which is in turn answered by the swirling drones in the second piece. Metallic textures and abrasive harmonies are coupled with the droning of Wright's bowed electric guitar in an intense, dark atmosphere. This later recedes to reveal a crunchy repetitive texture of fluctuating static sounds, ending suddenly and leaving you wanting more. It's an excellent work, engaging and highly recommended.
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Mark Peter Wright - Inanimate Life avalaible from 12th of september on 3Leaves

Inanimate Life is an ongoing audio catalogue, initially conceived whilst making a series of field recordings along the North East coast of England in 2006. For anybody who has walked, swam, sat or indeed attempted to record in these exposed conditions, they will be all too familiar with the experience of blustery coastal winds. During one such excursion I stood for some time watching and listening to seagulls drift on unseen and unheard thermals of air. I became fascinated by the intangibility of wind and its effect on physical objects. All around me seagulls were supported, pulled and caressed in suspended flight, sand was shaped and whipped into the air, coastal marram grass trembled and Victorian hand railings wailed.

This inaugural installment features some of natures most complex and vibrant audial worlds; including the creaking roots of wind blasted heather, the playful gusts that animate giant oak trees and the wailing drones that resonate along wired fencing.

Inanimate Life examines these delicate thresholds in our environmental, auditory perception and unveils a world teeming with sonic activity. The catalogue offers a moment to settle upon these events and in doing so, settle the ear upon the elusive, often fleeting phenomena of sound.
Mark Peter Wright

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