Giuseppe Ielasi / Kassel Jaeger - (2013) Parallel / Grayscale LP

 

Editions Mego ‎– Editions Mego 161

Editions Mego present the first collaborative work by sound artists Kassel Jaeger and Giuseppe Ielasi. 'Parallel/Grayscale' melds recordings of two improvised performances, one with entirely analog devices, and another, laptop-based performance, for an inter-dimensional exchange and subtraction of their unique spatial and textural properties, both clocking in at over 18 minutes in length.The first piece, 'Parallel' is slow moving and droney, initially focussed on looming bass shapes and reactive surface textures but altering dynamics as the mass moves through space with alternating density to a section that sounds like a raptor dissolved in a sink of acids and settling to a gloomy, chamber-like close. The B-side 'Grayscale' is more concerned with a constantly shifting patina of texturhythms and changeable weather system harmonics, as moody drones arch overhead of crumbling, dissolving, liquifying patterns and pulses with an engrossingly seasick quality.