Greg Fenton reviews aportrait – Lost Tapes – Memoire Affective
Connecting to this album conjures up an alluring, strange set of analogue circumstances that aren’t readily explained. A hard-to-capture initiative of creative, imaginative possibilities, in which every sound score and temptation is investigated through a prism of intrigue, each note invites reaction. Nothing is quite as it seems. It’s mercifully not trying to be ‘normal‘.
Tracks appear in teasingly short form, while others span a defiant five minutes. The music crackles and whirs, fusing a collage of rhythms such as on, come get some, while the proceeding, hot water music, soaks up Chicago influences from the past, transferring them into contemporary form. Likewise, the edgy grooves of, detroit club fighter. Moskva Slow shouldn’t work on paper, yet it does so powerfully as successive drums crash and burn.
There is an uncalculated, almost freeform approach to the music’s configuration, so much so that you may reach for the word complicated. But listen to the recrafting of the sample on all night long, and there is a certain element of magic at play, much as your attention is exercised across the full long play. A fascinating, emotionally turbulent listen because of all of the above, and because Lost Tapes isn’t just the same as everything else tries to be.
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