- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Electro-acoustic
- Electronic music
- Improvised noise
- Turntablism
Comment: I
definitely like this handful of tracks being released on a
Chicago-based avant-garde/experimental music imprint, Pan Y Rosas
Discos. An artist called May HD who exploits turntables and a
microkorg synth builds up a whole imbued with some kind of dark
matter, debris, crackles, sonic effects, haphazard samples and faint
sounds. At times it is about abysmal ambient undercurrents, at times
about black-hued yet quite light noisy incantations, at times about
convulsive electronic and vowel-based iterations, at times about
electro-acoustic music with obvious live touch (in fact, all the
whole is improvised at a live session in Brazil). There is even up
something which can be considered an off-kilter sort of
hard/psych-rock. For Zappa or Captain Beefheart it would have been the case.
As we have already experienced beyond the club culture turntablism as
a sort of experimental genre is gloriously introduced by such
agitated artists as Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide, Janek Schaefer,
Martin Tetreault, and Christian Marclay but May HD now with this
outing could certainly be added to the noble list.
