Robert Horton - Adronal Music

Robert Horton - Adronal Music

Verdict: 4.5/5
Label

Gold Soundz

CATALOG NO

GS#105

RELEASE DATE

October 2011

Written By

Bogdan Scoromide

Published

May 9, 2014

Disjunctive love, where the lovers aren’t ‘right’ for each other. They are withdrawn from one another as worlds, yet still somehow in relation. This queer love for something so different is a perpetual stimulus for invention, negotiation, and creation between the two, without any termination point in identity, but also a source of suffering when consciousness steps in with its teasing outlines of form. There’s no rest, no knowledge, just flowing through walls.

Such is Robert Horton’s music, disregarding any clear concept, just being there in all its honesty and opening itself up to more spacious worlds. “Adronal Music” is all tones. micro, atonal, tonal, modal, consonant + dissonant + noise. Its every sound moment following another there in itself”. Lots of sound sources are used: percussion, samples, bass, boot, Casio MT-68, turntable, cassette clarinet, trumpet, harmonium, Indian oboe and sine waves.

There are no two songs that sound the same and yet, a couple of minutes into the first piece, when the electric guitar kicked in, I felt like I know this man personally – a feeling also encouraged by the intimate liner notes that he wrote, with dedications showing what he’s been listening to at different times. Like the third song, where he mentions the improbable combination of Harry Partch, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Picasso. “Any everyday activity is a composition waiting to happen. Include everything. No separation.”

This tape breathes.

via cookshop

Tracklist:

A1. Simultanity Of All Possible Chadbourne Reference Points
A2. Fat Rain
A3. Uncle Hairy Patch's Knuckle Ride
A4. A Bannana Shaped Arc Brings Yellow Happiness To A Waking Egghatcher
B1. March Of Endless Worries
B2. Laundry Living Room
B3. Swing Path
B4. The Teasing Outline
B5. Adornal Music
B6. As We Sit