K-Elektronischer Automatisten – Verlorene Tonbänder: Maschinengefühle CD

A bittersweet collection of sounds and words from Lisa Eye and electronic artist/producer iGod. Mostly recorded in the UK (an apartment in London and a hotel in Brighton) with additional vocal takes done at Vibe Studio in Basel, Switzerland in 2008 & 2009. A few electronic dubs and the first mixes were done in Chicago in 2009, followed by the majority mixes being finished in Los Angeles in 2011. A few unmixed stragglers were discovered in 2015, when the original album was tweaked, sequenced and released. This re-issue coincided with the release of a limited double LP version.

A collage of hard glitch and bleeps from Hypercube (Rodrigo Passannanti) coupled with almost jazz-tinged acoustic wind and string instruments from UNIC6 (Frédéric Iriarte). It’s unapologetically experimental and work that demands your attention.

goii (German Ocean 2) is the follow up to the Brighton post-ambient dronescape merchants’ eponymous debut. Where the first album took listeners to the cold deep seas, goii attempts to reach for the sky; the five tracks acting as an imagined map into a world of thinning oxygen and eerie silence, punctured by the external drones of engines, propellers, the rattle of mounted cannon and movements of air that sing their strange songs along to the inner voices, chants (or prayers?) of men and women experiencing the thrill and fear of altitudes their fleshy bodies were never meant to attain. The fields below are a patchwork quilt bounded by hedgerows and dotted with sheep, grazing without a care in the world or a single thought for the feats of bravery, love and bloodlust above.