‘Vanishing Land’ is, by the artist’s own admission, an album that should not be. ‘I planned ‘Vanishing Land’ as a simple compilation of three Eps, recorded in 2014’, he explains. ‘Having listened to the whole material a few times, it seemed pointless to me. Each of those minialbums tells a different story, gathered together they only seem to make sense from an archival point of view.’
And so the compilation project was cast aside in favour of the work which now appears under the original title. Taking the original material and building upon it with additional interludes and field recordings, it tells an entirely different story. Or, arguably, retells the original stories fromdifferent perspectives. Whichever, ‘Vanishing Land’ is a collage of sound, reconfigured, recontextualised.
Murky swampscapes, obscured by mist, emerge fleetingly in airless, other-worldly atmospheres. Beats bubble up but rarely break the dense surface. Skittering legs, tweats and squawks echo in the gloom, probing strands of light arc briefly, illuminating shadows. Laser pulses, sonar sounding attempts to reach out and provide orientation, but there’s nothing distinct or tangible. Shapes in continual flux shift and blur as tones shudder, fuzzy-edged buzzes tease the receptors but never reveal their full form. Twisting, tapering, invisible forces move time and space. Signs and sounds of strange life. Everything is distant. Everything is strange. Everything is different. Lose yourself.
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Mirt - Vanishing Land
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