- Organcore
- Lo-fi
- Drone pop
- Improvised music
- DIY
- Bedroom music
- Electronic
- Psych-pop
Comment:
Selsey
Bill EP was the first sonorous appearance by Robby Massey aka
dessktop, an artist who did have like to record in the bedroom (or at
least at home). Later on, he would have released such issues as
Kirpi
EP,
Galleon Quilt, and
Voicemeal EP and also
the Split EP in liaison with Tiny Feathers all along at Rack & Ruin Records, one
of the most important imprints who (in the embodiment of Dean Birkett
as the head of the records) picked up grassroot/home recording
musicians to be allowed to get some focus on them. If you wish one
can find out my interview with him on this site. Fortunately almost
all the outings of the imprint are still nicely up on the home site
(unlike many other imprints from the period of the end of the 00s/
beginning of the 10s who and whose artists have just tracelessly
disappeared. For instance, Holiday Records and its artists as Bonfire
Kids, Young Michelin, Victory VIII etc). This handful of primitive
compositions (RRR012) is something being conjured up on such instruments as a
xylophone, an Indian flute, an Indian bass drum, toy accordion, a
couple of acoustic guitars, a melodica, a Casio synthesizer and his
vocal. I guess most of the instruments can be distinguished from one
another over there to create a frantic blend of drones, glockenspiel
plays based on an awkward yet charming scale of notes and key
changes. At times it is emotionally heated up, then he gets calmed down and at times the sound
disappears as if a river meandering inside the desert just vanishes at one moment. Robby Massey
once mentioned that he had been improvising for hours on different
instruments to discover and conjure up new motives. Regarded I can
only agree with him the music is hard thing to get ultimately
accomplished. Secondly, it seems to be a fight between managed
songcraft and free improvisation to have provided welcome tension
within the creative process. Yeah, it is a little bit more than just
an intriguing lo-fi release (although the following outings did it
even more) it is also a worth legacy of the aforementioned frenetic
era.
