♫♪  Edward Sol & Stuart Chalmers - Syncopated Soundmirror

This Syncopated Soundmirror reflects a collaborative partnership between Edward Sol (Ukraine) and Stuart Chalmers (UK). A tape of tape loops (plus some electronic touches) released by IKUISUUS (Finland). It’s exactly how I like my non-breakfast loops: time-worn, meditative, alchemical, somewhat indifferent, folded inward and expanding out fanlike in equal measure.

This stuff gets your attention by not asking for it, working in subtle accumulations. You flip the hourglass. Look up again with the sand at bottom in a conical mound, sand at the top a diminishing dimple. The compositional slow-build is a feature held across the tape, but each track finds its own question, referencing aquatic environments, B-movie horrors, ghostly residues, weird rites, or abandoned architectures.

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