Artist : Scissors And Sellotape
Title : Scissors And Sellotape
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Cotton Goods
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 20:18 min
Size : 26,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Chapter 01 01:49
02.Chapter 02 03:10
03.Chapter 03 01:40
04.Chapter 04 02:55
05.Chapter 05 02:11
06.Chapter 06 03:58
07.Chapter 07 02:04
08.Chapter 08 02:31
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20:18 min
From Boomkat:
*LIMITED TO 100 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED
AND HAND-PACKAGED COPIES FOR THE WORLD*
The latest Cotton Goods release arrives
in typically mysterious and anonymous
looking fashion, revealing only a
catalogue number and the words "Scissors
And Sellotape", which sounds suitably
like a summary of how the release was
put together - both in terms of its
packaging and the music itself, which is
typically delicate and homespun; a bit
like a school arts and crafts project.
Actually, Scissors And Sellotape is the
artist name, and it's the latest alias
of John McCaffrey, aka Part Timer, whose
work has previously appeared on Moteer,
Mobeer, Flau and various self-releases.
Here the beautiful music draws on sounds
from gamelan-style metallophone
percussion, location recordings, tape
noise and haunting instrumental
fragments, all cut into shape and stuck
back together in new song-shaped forms.
Divided into eight 'Chapters' over
twenty minutes, these collages are
cradled in hiss and glitch-like pops and
crackles where the cuts are made. The
unbuffed edges only enhance the earthy
texture, and this approach reaches the
height of its powers and effectiveness
by 'Chapter 4', whose downtrodden piano
and clicking, pattering beats make for a
sublime combination, very much in the
vein of the Remote Viewer's most
enduring works. The emphasis on drum
patterns and melodic progression becomes
all the stronger during the wonderful
'Chapter 6' and 'Chapter 7', but the
slightly more abstract, textural tracks
that surround them really underline the
sense of sonic dislocation and archive-
trawling from which these compositions
originated. Lovely and enigmatic as
ever, this latest bespoke Cotton Goods
release comes in the usual print run of
100 copies, so no snoozing...
http://www.cottongoods.co.uk/