Label: goods outward

UKより未知の作家を送り出す新興エクスペリメンタル・レーベルGoods Outward。オブスキュアなエレクトロニクス作品を手掛ける英レーベルMordant Musicに数種のカセット音源を残している、女性作家Natalie Williamsの変名プロジェクトLeyden Jarsの2023年カセット。自身の歌唱とフォーク、ドローン、エレクトロニクス、風景音を融合させた非常に違和感の強いアブストラクト即興を披露、かのLow Campanyや現行のDiscreet Musicとの動きとも被る印象。ジャケットデザインも美しい。







____We see steps off and float in.
_______In slow three sixties
_____we knit a cloak to keep us.
__________Pulse is fire
_____________and
__________metals echo
______and every astral flinch
____is a welcome whip of the tail.

___No substance without shadow.

______We emerge and hold on
___________to the rips
______along a rough-cut edge
_______where metals warm
_________and we pull up,
_____________aerial,
___________and survey.
_Up here the sung voice and blown reed
____________weaves all
____________and below,
land is a strip that gently crumbles a beat
________and brings us down.
_____________In wing.

__________Keen to conquer,
____________at any cost.

____Down here we tap an entrance
__on to where territory is molten melody
___________and we wade
______and we move without norm
____________like gravity,
_________all lefts and rights
______and the falling fragments
_______are belongings we carry
_____and the hiss is our backline
___and we move toward the euphony.
_____________In union
____and we think we’ve made a circle
______________and

________forlorn is forewarned,
____________forgeries all.

Words by Kevin Hendrick