Relmic Statute Exclusive
If you missed out, here’s your chance to listen to the recent Relmic Statute mix…
Relmic Statute is from Leeds England. The music is composed around various musical ‘systems’ such as alphabetic junction,rain melody,tapelooping,tape manipulation,pitch axis theory,finding melody’s in natural sound. Also recently using the pel thraine system for melody construction.
Most of the sounds and sources that are used to make up the tracks are from cassette’s and old 1/4inch tape. The field recordings have been taken at various locations in England over the past eight years have been used for most of the tracks on the myspace player as well as recordings for other friends and musicians.
A constant theme through most of the music is using old field recordings from many years ago and using them along with recent field recordings to create new songs and ideas. Recent tracks have been based on themes,narratives or representations of fictional places and moments via tapeloops and samples.
Releases:
Sitting Undre The Lantern’s Glow
Following last month’s release by the Tape loop Orchestra, Relmic Statute is the latest addition to the Cotton Goods label, and as ever, the standards of hand-made packaging continue to be raised by the label.
This time around you have to negotiate your way through a card folder embossed with the label’s logo before reaching a thick cardboard casing which holds the now customary hand-numbered ID card and a cut-out page, snipped from some long-forgotten text. Once you’re finally in, you discover that this latest edition (limited to 100 copies for the world) comes from Leeds-based artist David Horner, who records under the moniker Remic Statute, assembling lulling, grainy soundscapes based on the splicing of field recordings collected from cassettes and old 1/4-inch tape.
The likes of ‘Cupboard Music’ take on a scrapbook-like, collaged approach to sound-sculpting, taking muffled tones, mini-torrents of hiss and lo-fi cracklings as a means of establishing an atmosphere of cosy, domestic calm. Although this sort of material tends to be evocative of a very homely, cocoon-like quality, elsewhere Horner ventures so far as his window, documenting the seemingly endless, trickling downpour of ‘A Change In The Atmosphere’ and ‘The Leaves Of The Pel Thraine Cemetery’. On this latter recording the weather joins with a variety of more musical and manmade sounds; it serves as a great example of how Horner merges his own instrumental dabblings with incidental sounds, where both synthetic and natural timbres seem to mimic one another.
In a slightly different strand of his work, Horner draws William Basinski-inspired worn-out loops from ‘Flor-Ewue1932?, droning in a suitably enigmatic, decaying fashion, going on to demonstrate another facet of his talent by the time he reaches pieces such as ‘Small Song’ and ‘Tapeloop2? – both of which dig out clear-cut melodies, all channelled through the deteriorating, crumbled tape that adds so much rich character to these compositions. All we can say is, Hurry. – Boomkat Review
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Track List:
00:00
relmic statute
the leaves of the pel thraine cemetry
cottongoods records
01:57
jimmy behan
awake
audiobulb records
06:27
relmic statute
flor-ewue 1932
cottongoods records
08:45
simon james french
serfdom
hibernate records
12:27
chihei hatakeyama
phantasm
hibernate records
22:07
ian hawgood
let’s dance until the shallows break
hibernate records
26:59
taylor dupree
sea last (excerpt)
12k
35:25
jednota
shadows part1
-unreleased-
38:10
ander dahl
hundloka part3(excerpt)
hapna
41:09
tomoko sauvage
amniotic life
either/OAR
47:12
the boats
harry stop it please
flau
49:53
pan am scan
10_17 edit
-unreleased-
55:04
relmic statute
a change in the atmosphere
cottongoods records
Real nice mix