Well, it might appear that I only ever listen to music released by Erased Tapes, but that’s not true. (I also have a Radiohead playlist that I listen to when I’m writing!) I can’t deny that a lot of their releases are in areas I’m interested in - classical, electronic, miminalist, experimental-but-still-listenable.
I think I got an email newsletter from them today and looking for something led to me discovering Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia, which is one of those acoustic records that has a very electronic feel – lots of of repetition, variation, elevation and evolution. As if that wasn’t enough, the whole album runs together like a DJ set. (If you play it using the bandcamp widget above, I’d recommend flipping back to track 1 to get the full effect.)
Dysnomia was released in 2015 and to my knowledge there hasn’t been anything else from the trio, which I sort of like as it adds to the specialness of the album. What I’ve read about the group suggests that this was meticulously created, but it feels like one long session done on the fly. I don’t usually like instrumental breakdowns in songs, band jams and there is nothing I would rather listen to less than a solo, but that feeling of improvising is capivating, even if it is a lie and the result of many, many hours of meticulous planning.