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GLACIAL
Dale CORNISH
- Ref. XC719S
- ENTR'ACTE COMPACT (GBR), 2012.
With Glacial, what you hear is what you get. There aren't any psychoacoustic properties, complex cross-rhythms or submerged melodies hiding in these five stark rhythm experiments. Londoner Dale Cornish has so stripped down his rhythms that little seems to be left. You won't even be able to figure out what's making the sounds. They could be from a drum machine, heavy synth rig or some digitally treated samples. Each piece consists of no more than three or four different sounds, one or two rhythmic elements repeated at a medium tempo with only the barest of treat- ments. Glacial Pattern 5 is an isolated hi-hat texture, a dead metallic splash disappearing into ripples of thin reverb. Pattern 3 precariously balances four different rhythmic elements, but might be the album's most static track. The closest these tracks get to swinging is Glacial Pattern 4, which bangs like zombie hiphop ¯ a shell of rhythm, hollowed out and wandering with no mind. The sparseness of these pieces ¯ their sheer stubbornness to do anything or develop anywhere ¯ baits you into looking for some concept that's not there. The textures and rhythms are so ascetic, I hesitate to even call them beats. Still, Glacial fulfils one of the main criteria of dance music, even though it will certainly never fill a dancefloor: it's functional, just in a domestic way. Glacial isn't really an album. Think of it as a strangely calming sonic clock, something to put on to let you know that time passes, even when you think its standing still. (Matt Wuethrich pour le magazine Wire)
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- 1 Glacial pattern 1
- 2 Glacial pattern 2
- 3 Glacial pattern 3
- 4 Glacial pattern 4
- 5 Glacial pattern 5