a r t i s t : Greg Kelley
t i t l e : The traditions of the past cannot be retrieved
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : 8mmRecords
g e n r e : Noise
r l s. d a t e : May/2006
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 87,10 MB
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To some people Greg Kelley is mostly known as a trumpet player
in the world of improvised music, with his projects such as
Nmperign, Heathen Shame and Cold Bleak Heat, but he's also
active as a composer under his own name. His previous solo
release, 'I Don't Want To Live Forever' (see Vital Weekly 474)
was a strong work of musique concrete sound assemblage of
field recordings made on tour, entirely put together on the
computer. On this new release he dug up five pieces from the
period 1997 to 2005 which were all made on a four track
machine. The first four are all around seven to eight minutes
and the final piece is almost thirty one minutes long. In all
five there is an element of noise, not in the sense of putting
some distortion pedals on but the loud recording of acoustic
elements, tape loops and bits of silence making strong sound
collages. In '4 Piezos', the long piece, there is a lot of
metal sounds, amplified with piezo microphones and electronic
sounds coming from tape-machines (tape-scratching) and perhaps
even some electronic processing at the end. Perhaps a bit
long, this last one, but it's throughout a release that has
some highly intelligent form of noise music.
(from Vital Weekly: number 525)
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01-The traditions of the past cannot be retrieved [08:17]
02-4 Fans [07:35]
03-Memento Mori [07:53]
04-6 Fragments [07:18]
05-4 Piezos [30:51]
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61:54 min