LND007 Billy Gomberg - Days

Billy Gomberg - Days

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Days collects five studio pieces drawn from acoustic recordings of piano and voice, treated, amplified, and arranged. The arrangements are simple: long passages of sound material lay next to each other, their closeness and distance outlining a structure.

The impressions of sound, and upon sound, color through the window influencing the acoustics. Transparency and a sense of architecture. Materials, once unique, begin to reflect each other, and that can be enough.

Anne recorded herself singing a old folk song in both Swedish and English. She took the recordings and mixed them together in software. She liked the result and suggested that I work with these recordings. The piano recordings are of my own improvisations. On “exposures,” I've done some singing as well.

anne:
i think of these words
post-punk
architecture
what you hear at 5 am after you stayed up all night deep in some project and yr not
really sure yr awake
but yr just reentering reality
and sort of surprised it has been there all night

“no one writes or paints alone. but we have to make the pretense of so doing.”
bourriaud -81

Billy Gomberg delivers a thought provoking and beautiful release for the brilliant Land Of imprint. His work is fascinating and I've enjoyed it immensely over the last few years (beginning I believe with his contribution to the Post Piano open remix project where he provided a very nice interpretation indeed). Days consists of five studio recordings based on manipulations of piano and voice recordings. It instantly clicked with me as it takes the inherent beauty of both sounds sources and processes them in such a way that they become strangely hallucinatory. Ethereal and unearthly sounding, the tones are stretched into deep and mood driven textures with the naturally percussive piano hits taking on an almost (I stress almost) rhythmic quality. There’s variety here with more stark drone / soundscape pieces that flow beautifully as well as a style that, in my opinion, could simply be called pure ambient, although I’m aware that one man’s ambient is another man’s experimental. For fans of the label and other such high quality imprints (12k, and/OAR and Dragon’s Eye spring to mind) this is without doubt something to immediately give your attention to. Limited to 100 copies and fully excellent all round. - Smallfish