I’m writing back-to-back posts about solo works for cello, electronics, and occasional voice, but this is very different to the Dobrawa Czocher album last week. We’re in much more experimental territory. From the start, the cello is thumped and scraped as well as bowed. Two- or three-note motifs repeat, mutate, stretch, fade in and out. There what sound like tone generators sine-waving away in the background, the ephemeral resonances creating an alien atmosphere. On the second of the four tracks that make up this 30-minute tape, the cello starts to layer, giving me the impression that Sundborn is improvising over a playback of herself. On the third, the vocals appear, initially as isolated syllables, taking four minutes to resolve themselves into the words “I can’t forget”, and then almost as an afterthought “what you said”. The overall feeling is intimate, bordering on claustrophobic-but-in-a-good-way. This is music that refuses to give easy answers, but it’s well worth sitting with it and pondering its questions.
I bought this from Boomkat. They call it Electronic and Modern Classical / Ambient.
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