Label: XI Records - XI143

これは凄まじい内容、大推薦！！現在まで個人名義の音盤リリースは殆どなく、プライベート出版を軸にひたすら電子持続音の追求だけを行って来た、知られざる孤高のコンポーザーDave Seidel。米老舗アヴァンレーベルXI Recordsが気合いを入れて出版した待望の2021年2CD作[Involution]。ラ・モンテ・ヤングとアルヴィン・ルシエからの強い影響語り、その完璧に調整された構造をモジュラーシンセサイザーとソフトウェアを使い表現。それらを3つのセクションに分け様々なチューニングとスケールで作り上げた、まさに持続音の探求より得られた真骨頂的録音ブツ。あらゆるドローン音楽ファンに激推しの一枚。







The first CD in this set presents Seidel’s composition Involution, heard in three sections. The music is presented as an expansion of slowly-changing sonorities that explore the harmonic spaces inherent in certain microtonal tunings and scales, or modes within those tunings. Each section employs a different tuning and a different set of scales or modes and uses a combination of all the different technologies Seidel has been working with over the past several years: Csound, modular synthesizer, and pedals

Hexany Permutations, the music that the second CD of this release contains, hints at the same concerns of sonority heard in Involution but tackles the composing slightly differently, with musical results of differing proportions. In this piece, the structure of the piece plays an equal if not more dominant role than the microtonal sonorities explored.
- Text by Dean Rosenthal from the liner notes