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Jonathan Coleclough & Lethe, "Long Heat"
Any doubt that the term "drone," as applied to this sort of music, iscompletely and ridiculously misleading should be eliminated afterlistening to this recording. While all sorts of pulsing tones are usedand thrown away on Long Heat,the most noticeable aspect this collaboration is that it never sitsstill or relies on constant droning sounds to achieve its ratherconfusing effect.
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Kuwayama Kiyoharu, otherwise known as Lethe, andJonathan Coleclough construct a fairly ominous set of sounds, one ontop of the other, until they produce the sound of music burning.Crackling, sticks snapping, and slowly detuned winds flow through aseries of almost indefinable transitions; each new sound ushers in anew palette and a fresh movement. Sounding almost like a variation on atheme, the duo slowly allows an intensity to build, never reallyletting go and simply adding intriguing sounds as they move along,almost as though they were eager to drop the old ones as quickly aspossible. At around the 21 minute mark, the atmosphere begins to spiralout of a control ever so slightly: the clanking of metal, the sounds ofbirds chirping, and the endless wail of synthetic tones grows over itsown container and sounds more and more threatening with every passingsecond. There's almost never any doubt that anything released byColeclough is going to be good, but not since his work with ColinPotter on Low Ground has his work felt this powerful.Lethe's contribution may have something to do with this, butunfortunately there are no details provided on the packaging in regardsto who contributed what and how. There are two editions of this releaseavailable. One is a single disc edition and the other is a two-discedition limited to 250 copies and available only through ICRDistribution. There's little reason not to own this; the fevered pitchthis album reaches and it's beautiful, destructive aftermath exceed anydescription that might be applied.
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Kuwayama Kiyoharu, otherwise known as Lethe, andJonathan Coleclough construct a fairly ominous set of sounds, one ontop of the other, until they produce the sound of music burning.Crackling, sticks snapping, and slowly detuned winds flow through aseries of almost indefinable transitions; each new sound ushers in anew palette and a fresh movement. Sounding almost like a variation on atheme, the duo slowly allows an intensity to build, never reallyletting go and simply adding intriguing sounds as they move along,almost as though they were eager to drop the old ones as quickly aspossible. At around the 21 minute mark, the atmosphere begins to spiralout of a control ever so slightly: the clanking of metal, the sounds ofbirds chirping, and the endless wail of synthetic tones grows over itsown container and sounds more and more threatening with every passingsecond. There's almost never any doubt that anything released byColeclough is going to be good, but not since his work with ColinPotter on Low Ground has his work felt this powerful.Lethe's contribution may have something to do with this, butunfortunately there are no details provided on the packaging in regardsto who contributed what and how. There are two editions of this releaseavailable. One is a single disc edition and the other is a two-discedition limited to 250 copies and available only through ICRDistribution. There's little reason not to own this; the fevered pitchthis album reaches and it's beautiful, destructive aftermath exceed anydescription that might be applied. samples:
