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ZEH, JASON - A vacant Lot to be in

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Crippled Intellect Productions CIP24 Release Year: 2013 Note: highly interesting LP by this "master of cassette tape and cassette playback devices", using everything imaginable from tapes and tape decks (magnets, metal, plastic, car stereo tape adapters, cassette players without tape, cassette tape loops, modified tape decks, sand paperfor) for his low fi hissing & droning noise compositions..lim. 300 , the cover is a 'risography' of Jason Zeh's art, hand tipped into the jacket, with silkscreened back cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €17.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Edition of 300 copies, silkscreened back sleeve and mounted risography image on the cover. 'Jason Zeh is a hands-down master of cassette tape and cassette playback devices. Using magnets, metal, plastic, car stereo tape adapters, cassette players without tape, cassette tape loops, modified tape decks, and sand paper (among other devices), Zeh creates two tracks that swim through hiss, grit, and wavering, fractured soundwaves to create some of the most engaging audio I've had the pleasure to hear. This recording reflects not only Zeh's dedication to mastering and refining his source material of choice, but also a drive to explore and mine new facets of that source material for some truly rewarding audio." [label info] www.cipsite.net "Zeh is one of the few people I know who uses extensively cassette tapes, processed in extreme conditions, to create some excellent musique concrete from a very lo-fi point of view. Tape is treated with paint, dirt, needles, sand papers, but also tape recorders are subject to similar modifications, and all of these processed recordings are put together with some great effect. Two pieces, one per side and each is described on the cover, such as 'all sounds derived from cassette loops of varying lengths stretched between modified tape decks. Magnets, splicing tape, sand paper and magnetized knife blades have been used to slowly dismantle the recorded source material' and that's what happens over the twenty minutes of 'Cycles Of Doubt'. That piece is throughout quite a drone like affair, whereas 'A Vacant Lot To Be In' is a slow growing animal, reaching it's forceful peak at one point, buzzing loudly with tons of hiss, in a might crescendo ending the piece. Excellent stuff, carved into an analogue medium for optimum playback." [FdW /Vital Weekly]