Ezekiel Honig on Type? This LMYE wet dream (a revered artist - & proprietor of the great Anticipate - on our label of 2009) could hardly disappoint. Haven't heard all of Folding In On Itself yet, but tracks & samplers rooted out so far (all streamable below) carry a fuzzily muted - but still entirely distinctive - wistfulness under a sort of anti-veneer of metropolitan found sound.
The woozy, world-weary Subverting The Memory Of Your Surroundings embodies much of this - bleeding, blurring synths freighted by street clatter & tunnel echo...
Blurb: "New York-based Honig's Type debut Folding In On Itself doesn't make his music any easier to describe but does a lot to clarify the mood. This is deeply melancholy music, and while it doesn't revel in sadness, it conveys a sense that the things we grew up with and see disappear can never be recaptured. Memory and the corruption or distortion thereof is at the core the record, and like the cover which is made up of hazy family snaps of a changing Manhattan, Honig has tried to capture a sense of entropy in his quickly disintegrating city. Using a palette of locally-recorded environmental samples, decayed acoustic instruments and the unusual, clattering percussion that has become his signature, Folding In On Itself is probably Honig's most measured and defining record. Elements of his previous work are still present, heard most obviously on the breakthrough Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band (ANTICIP 006CD), but every tiny part has been trimmed and honed with a selfless attention to detail. From the lilting, processed horns and clipped percussion on "Subverting The Memory Of Your Surroundings" to the noisy, slowly decomposing piano of "Drafting Foresight," there is a sense that Honig has a distinct story to tell, and that every track on the album is a unique part of the same object. Far from a random collection of tracks, "Folding In On Itself" is an introverted collection of musings on change and loss, and is as softly-spoken and moving as anything on Type to date. Handle with care."
Stream two full tracks & an album sampler below, plus a crisp recent-ish reworking of an old track & a sound design from a couple of years back that shares Folding's plaintive mood...
Finally, cough up your email below for an archetypically clicky, blurred new freebie, Hitching a Ride on a Sailboat...
Previous coverage (also here).
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a reworking of elements from the first two parts (from my Scattered Practices album)
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