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From the American composer Hali Palombo I reviewed some works before, which I enjoyed, but I don't know too much about how she works. I learned from her last work, 'Infinity Room' that she uses a lot of shortwave radio, cylinder records and 78 rpm records, and this new work seems to extend that. This time she also uses piano, guitar and saxophone. You'd say with such a title it also includes her voice, and maybe it does; it's not mentioned. Eight pieces of music, clocking in at thirty-six minutes, making this not a very long album. The extension of sound sources along with the radio transmissions give the music a broadder, more musical appeal. Sometimes these radio voices come with a fine amount of reverb, making it sound as coming from centuries ago. A sort of ballroon effect, a radio play from the thirties. In 'Voice Scrambler' we have that effect but along with, indeed, a voice scrambler, adding, perhaps, also a futurist element. With a nice if not a bit long of a melody loop to back it up. That happens in some other tracks too, loops overstaying their welcome, such as in 'CRY2001'. But throughout I found this a most enjoyable album, with strong radiophonic qualities. Palombo has quite a bit of variation going here, a bit of rhythm here (in 'Enrico'), a melody or noise there, such as in the long but great 'Weather Balloon', which has a fine complexity going of intercepted number stations (perhaps!), mixed along with material of a more plunderphonic nature. Music created with great care and depth and from the various releases I know from her, this is her best one yet. (Vital Weekly) Self-released digipak CD.
From the American composer Hali Palombo I reviewed some works before, which I enjoyed, but I don't know too much about how she works. I learned from her last work, 'Infinity Room' that she uses a lot of shortwave radio, cylinder records and 78 rpm records, and this new work seems to extend that. This time she also uses piano, guitar and saxophone. You'd say with such a title it also includes her voice, and maybe it does; it's not mentioned. Eight pieces of music, clocking in at thirty-six minutes, making this not a very long album. The extension of sound sources along with the radio transmissions give the music a broadder, more musical appeal. Sometimes these radio voices come with a fine amount of reverb, making it sound as coming from centuries ago. A sort of ballroon effect, a radio play from the thirties. In 'Voice Scrambler' we have that effect but along with, indeed, a voice scrambler, adding, perhaps, also a futurist element. With a nice if not a bit long of a melody loop to back it up. That happens in some other tracks too, loops overstaying their welcome, such as in 'CRY2001'. But throughout I found this a most enjoyable album, with strong radiophonic qualities. Palombo has quite a bit of variation going here, a bit of rhythm here (in 'Enrico'), a melody or noise there, such as in the long but great 'Weather Balloon', which has a fine complexity going of intercepted number stations (perhaps!), mixed along with material of a more plunderphonic nature. Music created with great care and depth and from the various releases I know from her, this is her best one yet. (Vital Weekly) Self-released digipak CD.