Geoff Mullen's 'Filtered Water' is an augmented mono recording documenting a multi-channel sound installation in the backwoods of Hudson Valley. Following ongoing experiments with champion and spar, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and the excellent 'Accidental Guitars' for regular collaborator Eli Keszler's R.E.L. Records, it's a subtly beguiling follow-up to his 'Bongo Closet' LP, released three years ago on Type. Leaving the guitar at home, he shapes an immersive, sensurreal sound ecology balancing field recordings, feedback and tape collage in a richly detailed, longform piece traversing both sides of the record. Stranded in the woods, we can almost pick up the sounds of passing trains strafing the field behind cryptically-timed clanks and feedback drones which appear to oxidise in mid-air around us. Yet, while undoubtedly abstract and experimental in form and nature, Geoff's musical sensitivity lends 'Filtered Water' its sparkle, allowing for partial melodies to percolate to the surface now and again, still rich with geologic structure but crumbling at his fingertips...
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Geoff Mullen's 'Filtered Water' is an augmented mono recording documenting a multi-channel sound installation in the backwoods of Hudson Valley. Following ongoing experiments with champion and spar, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and the excellent 'Accidental Guitars' for regular collaborator Eli Keszler's R.E.L. Records, it's a subtly beguiling follow-up to his 'Bongo Closet' LP, released three years ago on Type. Leaving the guitar at home, he shapes an immersive, sensurreal sound ecology balancing field recordings, feedback and tape collage in a richly detailed, longform piece traversing both sides of the record. Stranded in the woods, we can almost pick up the sounds of passing trains strafing the field behind cryptically-timed clanks and feedback drones which appear to oxidise in mid-air around us. Yet, while undoubtedly abstract and experimental in form and nature, Geoff's musical sensitivity lends 'Filtered Water' its sparkle, allowing for partial melodies to percolate to the surface now and again, still rich with geologic structure but crumbling at his fingertips...
Geoff Mullen's 'Filtered Water' is an augmented mono recording documenting a multi-channel sound installation in the backwoods of Hudson Valley. Following ongoing experiments with champion and spar, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and the excellent 'Accidental Guitars' for regular collaborator Eli Keszler's R.E.L. Records, it's a subtly beguiling follow-up to his 'Bongo Closet' LP, released three years ago on Type. Leaving the guitar at home, he shapes an immersive, sensurreal sound ecology balancing field recordings, feedback and tape collage in a richly detailed, longform piece traversing both sides of the record. Stranded in the woods, we can almost pick up the sounds of passing trains strafing the field behind cryptically-timed clanks and feedback drones which appear to oxidise in mid-air around us. Yet, while undoubtedly abstract and experimental in form and nature, Geoff's musical sensitivity lends 'Filtered Water' its sparkle, allowing for partial melodies to percolate to the surface now and again, still rich with geologic structure but crumbling at his fingertips...