{"title":"Black Truffle Releases Feb 2024","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"julia-reidy-in-real-life","title":"JULIA REIDY - IN REAL LIFE","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BLACKTRUFFLE051\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 4250101408465\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 01 Oct 2019\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRepress: 09 Feb 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Truffle present In Real Life, the latest in a flurry of releases from Berlin-based guitarist and composer Julia Reidy. Having drawn acclaim for solo performances on 12-string acoustic guitar that bridge microtonality, ‘American primitive’ stylings and classic minimalism, Reidy’s recent releases have utilised an increasingly broad sonic palette, fleshing out guitar-based composition with electronics, field recordings, and – most strikingly – heavily auto-tuned vocals. On In Real Life, Reidy pushes one step further, crafting an epic LP-length suite that moves from abstracted song to lush electronics and explorations in contemporary musique concrète.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with a passage of eerie electronics and creaking percussive interjections, Reidy’s heavily auto-tuned voice quickly takes centre stage. Surrounded by explosions of electric guitar and synthesised arpeggios, the auto-tuned voice delivers a melancholic ode, bringing together poetic images to reflect on the instability of experience and mutability of identity in a contemporary world saturated by digital technology. This concern with the unsettled relationship between the physical and digital is reflected musically by the constantly shifts in emphasis between Reidy’s physically demanding guitar-picking and the various forms of synthesis deployed. Similarly, the dynamic imagery of cutting, shattering, and ‘racing streams’ present in Reidy’s lyrics also serves to characterise the structure of In Real Life, which ceaselessly shifts between distinct episodes. The song-based opening, long sequences of frenetic 12-string guitar shadowed and eventually overtaken by synth tones, passages of delicate chiming harmonics, electro-acoustic cut-ups – each flows seamlessly into the next, often recurring throughout the record’s duration, which lingers over interstitial moments between these episodes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixed and mastered by Joe Talia at Good Mixture, Tokyo. Vinyl cut at 45rpm for maximum fidelity by Rashad Becker at D\u0026amp;M, Berlin. Artwork by Suze Whaites. LP desgn by Lasse Marhaug.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003eA. Crystal Bones 00:20:01\u003cbr\u003eB. 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Reidy’s voice is a frequent presence throughout these nine pieces, at times creating the impression that a more conventional series of songs lurks underneath the chiming microtonal guitars. On the stunning ‘Poised’, whispers and distant, ghostly wails surround the layers of guitars, at times suggesting the foggiest outer reaches of Liz Harris’ Grouper. Both rigorously experimental and emotive, World in World is undoubtedly Julia Reidy’s finest work yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere much of Reidy’s guitar work on previous recordings explored rapidly pulsed cycling figures, here notes often hang in the air in a more spacious, lyrical fashion. The elasticity of rhythm and non-linear repetition of pitches initially suggests improvisation until the listener becomes aware of the precise arrangements of spatialised lines. At times, World in World suggests classic bedroom electric guitar works of the 1990s such as Loren Connors’ Airs or Roy Montgomery’s Scenes from the South Island; like those works, Reidy’s possesses a wonderfully live ambience, with frequent pedal clicks adding to the music’s powerful sense of intimacy. In Reidy’s case, however, the yearning, melancholic mood of Connors or Montgomery is tempered by the unorthodox guitar tuning, which at points produces a unique and uncomfortable effect somewhere between the hyper-precision of Harry Partch or Lou Harrison and Jandek’s slack-stringed descent into the void. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile World in World plots out its terrain with a bold single-mindedness that allows some pieces to appear almost as variations on a common theme, subtle changes in emphasis distinguish each track. Tactile percussive interjections skitter across the tremolo tones of ‘Paradise in Unrecognisable Colours’, while ‘Ajar’ ramps up the role played by the electronics, with glitching pitch-shifted and back-masked textures threaded through the guitars and thickly harmonised vocal layers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting \u003cbr\u003eA1 Julia Reidy World in World 00:06:56\u003cbr\u003eA2 Julia Reidy Poised 00:04:23\u003cbr\u003eA3 Julia Reidy Holding Onto 00:03:10\u003cbr\u003eA4 Julia Reidy Loom 00:03:17\u003cbr\u003eA5 Julia Reidy Ajar 00:04:11\u003cbr\u003eB1 Julia Reidy Walls and Clearings 00:07:11\u003cbr\u003eB2 Julia Reidy Slipstream 00:06:21\u003cbr\u003eB3 Julia Reidy Paradise in Unrecognisable Colours 00:05:48\u003cbr\u003eB4 Julia Reidy Hollowed 00:02:11\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41576855437468,"sku":"BLACKTRUFFLE088","price":25.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/BLACKTRUFFLE088.jpg?v=1649749192"},{"product_id":"crys-cole-oren-ambarchi-hotel-record-2lp","title":"Crys Cole \u0026 Oren Ambarchi - Hotel Record [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 x LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BT029  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 880319855139\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 19 Jan 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Electronic\/Ambient\/Electro-Acoustic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRepress: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e09 Feb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2024 REPRESS. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Quite easily one of the most quietly seductive records you’ll hear from the abstract, ambient, electro-acoustic sphere this year’ BOOMKAT.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHotel Record is the second release from the duo\/couple of crys cole and Oren Ambarchi, following on from Sonja Henies Vei 31 (Planam, 2014). 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Spiky dissonance and ringing harmonics interweave with flowing melodic fragments as Haino single-mindedly explores the resonance of the snare like an untutored Han Bennink. On ‘Right brain, left brain; right, left; right wing, left wing. Just how many combinations can be made from these?’, O’Rourke moves to synth and electronics, joined by Ambarchi on drums, who at first focuses on sizzle cymbals before hypnotic cycles of gentle tom rhythms combine with electronic burbles and flutters to suggest a dream collaboration between Masahiko Togashi and Jean Schwarz. Ambarchi’s percussion is then joined by Haino on wandering, overblown flute, before the man in black switches back to the snare for a bizarre, stuttering drum duet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first trio performance, Haino makes another new addition to his seemingly infinite catalogue of instruments, this time a homemade contraption he refers to as ‘Strings of Dubious Reputation’. 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