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Robert Crouch — Organs

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Organs is an album by Robert Crouch, comprised of three extended drones edited together from a mixture of field and performance recordings, collaboratively created with artist and choreographer Julie Tolentino. It riffs off the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, two 20th-century philosophers known for eschewing hierarchy and linearity, and who saw their work not as something to be interpreted but experimented with, plugged into other projects. Similarly, each piece on Organs seems to revolve around one unifying motif that is constantly being transported, transformed, and recontextualized to create something new.

The gargantuan, near 30-minute, second track, “The Eyes of Fire,” opens with a tense, uneasy-sounding drone, but it gradually diminishes  while a warmer tone quietly emerges from the background and grows in intensity. For a time they intertwine and feed off each other, but at some uncertain point a threshold is reached and the soundscape has changed into something completely different from its initial cartography. What begins as a paranoid jaw-grinder becomes warm, ethereal.

These are calm, meditative pieces, well-suited for drinking tea or sonic immersion in a dark room. The number of CD copies is limited to 500, available from Dragon’s Eye Recordings, so get ‘em while you can.

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