Lescalleet, Jason / This Is What I Do Vol. 1

Glistening Examples

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CDR
$12.00
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Street Date:
February 14th, 2012
Ship Date:
February 13th, 2012

A collection of previously released compilation tracks. “Lescalleet’s work is a monument to the notion that music is sound,” your Dusted correspondent will have you know. “He exploits the quirks of cheap or damaged equipment … [and] the malleable, impermanent ways of magnetic tape…. Sometimes the material’s origins are obvious, such as ‘Un Peu de Neige Sans Raison’s’ church organ samples… [while] the ghostly low tones and flickering high ones on ‘Untitled’ could come from anywhere. But whether he’s looping sound into long, mournful melodies or squashing it into tiny quavers, he consistently invests it with such gravity that it could absorb a black hole.”