| Craig, Ian William / Zugzwang For Fostex |
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| Album: | Zugzwang For Fostex | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Craig, Ian William | Added: | May 2016 | |
| Label: | Patient Sounds | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-06-06 | Pull Date: | 2016-08-08 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Jul 31 | Jul 10 | Jun 26 | Jun 19 | Jun 12 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 30, 2016: | Music Casserole Lost On Time, Part 1 | 4. | Jun 18, 2016: | Narnia Zwischenzug | |
| 2. | Jul 05, 2016: | Magnetized Toner Lost On Time, Part 2 | 5. | Jun 17, 2016: | Narnia The Lower Boards | |
| 3. | Jun 25, 2016: | Narnia Lost On Time, Part 1 | 6. | Jun 12, 2016: | K-Area Out Of Book |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2016-05-22 | ||
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Hot on the heels of Vancouver classical vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig's LP Cradle for the Wanting comes this experiment in analog decay. It's chillier and more ascetic than Craig's epic, sublime records for Recital. In Craig's own words: “Recorded, performed and mixed by IWC entirely on a customised Fostex X-15 as it slowly died because of having customised it. All sounds created using analogue tape, manipulated and circuit-bent tape recorders, a swag spring reverb, the Craig piano, sandpaper, the Reminsky Fatso and IWC's voice. No digital anythings were employed in the creation of this recording because who knows how any of that stuff works anyways.” Fans of The Caretaker and related artists will like this. Tracks fade into one another. Favorites: 3, 4, 5, 6, 10. No words, no FCCs. 1. (1:49)—Slow, sad piano, with tape-warping in the background. 2. (6:28)—Distorted voices blowing about in the wind. 3. *(2:25)—Choral, sad, droning. Halting tape. 4. *(4:29)—Blown out piano. Starts very minimally, picks up, adds piano layers. 5. *(6:43)—Choral again. Blissful, relatively quiet. 6. *(5:58)—A solo voice emerges and repeats a lamenting line. 7. (2:53)—The piano is so heavily chopped up here this is almost minimalist noise. 8. (4:50)—Easygoing avalanche noise shading into spare choral noise shading into broken refrigerator noise. 9. (1:54)—Woozy, solo piano. 10. *(6:42)—Wispy, gauzy vocal tape noise. Peaceful. | ||
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