Label: Room40

ポートランドにて1989年から音楽活動を開始、現在まで100以上もの音源を残し、2020年にはMatiere Memoireの企画である20人の優れたアーティストによるクリスタルクリア・ヴァイナル・シリーズ"MMXX"にも登場したDaniel Menche。"孤独"や"さびれた"という意味を持つ[Forlorn]をタイトルとした作品であり、ドローンノイズの中で迷子になるというイメージをサウンド化したもの。両サイド20分間に渡り緻密なレイヤーの変化で漆黒の内省持続音を聞かせる、まさにこの人物独自の視点が興味深い内容。マットラミネート&エンボス加工のアウタースリーブ、3パネルの折り畳み式インサートが付属。



Matte laminate and embossed outer sleeve, three panel monochrome fold out insert, soft poly-carb case

The word “Forlorn” is defined as: “abandoned, lost, ruined, doomed for destruction”. In some way, that sums up a lot about the mood of 2020-2021.

We all felt abandoned and lost to a certain degree, in all of our own, various ways. I certainly did, and I thought one aspect that was the most abandoned was my sense of time. It’s as though “time” had abandoned me. or was it the other way around? Maybe I was abandoning time!

My own solution to this recent forlorn feeling is to go on long hikes in forests around this area in which I live. Ideally I want to get lost in my thoughts, and occasionally physically lost.

Getting lost seems to be the main goal and intention of my musical work over the past 30 years. I have an ambition to see how I can get the listener to feel as lost as possible within my sounds and noise.

Have you ever been lost in a forest all alone at night without any lighting? I have, and what a great feeling! I try to translate these experiences in the form of my music. A big gigantic dark forest of drones and noise to get lost in.