MATCHESS - Sonescent

Sonescent, the new album from Matchess,
came to Whitney Johnson's mind while she
was at the Dhamma Vaddhana Meditation
Center just north of Joshua Tree, during a
course of Vipassana meditation. This is a
ten day period that requires, among other
codes of discipline, the practice of Noble
Silence: silence of body, speech, and mind.
With Soncescent, the record is the sound
of the meditation itself with the music existing in an atmosphere that would properly
represent its fragile nature, the delicate
sound of something almost completely disintegrated. Here, inspiration was taken from
John Cale's pop records and the music of
Phill Niblock and liane Radigue. The rendering of the songs in the mix is discreet, to
say the least. For the silence of the unseen
word absorbing the world of the songs,
Whitney used binuaral sine waves, ARP
Odyssey synth, loops and no input mixing
techniques. The editing and mixing of this
material renders it in gauze, smoke, and
whispers-an exquisite barely-thereness.

Vinyl release of Matchess - Sonescent. Released through DRAG CITY and available on LP.