Accou - Rhyme Nor Reason [Cassette]

Format: Cassette
Catalogue No.: PMTAPE11
Barcode: 5050580786813
Release Date: 11 Nov 2022
Genre: Leftfield IDM

01: Pie Are Round - Accou
02: Dish Water - Accou
03: How About Lunch - Accou
04: Carry a Trowel - Accou
05: Stone Soup - Accou
06: Baked in a Pie - Accou
07: Cabbage Stew - Accou
08: Slimy Goop - Accou
09: Fish On - Accou
10: Goblet of a Drum - Accou

There was a time when a person would pick up an instrument to compose yet another song for a loved one. A sad figure humming into a microphone, pronouncing the most basic words and forms to convey quantity, quality, fact, statistics and similar sounds describing pain, loss and sorrow. The human brain would perceive the melody sad and perhaps within herself feel a sense of melancholia.

In another parallel world a new composition would then appear. But not one composed on a wooden built instrument, no, sounds made into structures and tables that would assists the listener into providing an additional context and meaning through digital synthesis and quantised harmonies. But who could really tell if these sounds were real? Or where they just sounds impersonating an idea of something?

Rhyme nor reason is as abstract in its shapes and ideas as it is concrete and elegant in its narratives. A carefully crafted wooden cabinet with an over-whelming amount of different drawers and hidden compartments. Each box storing blissful arrangement; a fluorescent stone, a paper note saying something about lunch, some collectible objects, a forgotten token or perhaps an autograph, all so very vibrant and joyful for its possessor.

Deleted files stored on rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. Small, easy to loose SSD memory cards of recorded corrupt files and digital artefacts. Software engineered compositions trying to grasp the shared belief of an upcoming future, vivid and uncertain; birds, waters and long lost recollections. A release unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world. At least not for now.

“Brussels-based artist Accou certainly drenches his atmospheres in vivid richness, the billowing ambience thick as fog banks on the brink of changing from a gas to a liquid state.”
Ryan — Cassette Gods

“... elements of ambient electronics with detonating or muted rhythm machines, audio collages and manipulation of K7 tapes...”
— October Tone