Label: adhuman

100部限定!!サウンドアートからサウンドポエトリー好きまで是非!!2007年頃からソロ音源のリリースを開始、英マイナーカセット・レーベルやChocolate Monkに小作品を残してきた英ブライトンの作家Teignmouth Electron。まだこのプロジェクトを始動する以前に録りためていた、2つのテープ録音アーカイヴを素材に構築した2024年音源[You Are Not Alone]。4年振りとなる久々の個人作で、聞き取れないラジオ放送の断片やウォークマンが偶然受信した近くの電話の会話を、ほぼ編集&装飾なしでファウンドサウンド・オブジェクト的に仕上げた渾身の一作。100部限定では少なすぎる素晴らしい内容。





Pro glass mastered digipak CD edition. Ltd to 100 copies.

Teignmouth Electron is the solo project of Maureen Hallomas, otherwise known for involvement in projects like Polly Shang Kuan Band, Rubber Demon, Leopard Leg, Men Oh Pause and more. Seen and heard most often in a live performance guise, Teignmouth Electron has nonetheless produced a small yet significant back catalogue of recorded work going as far back as 2007 on labels such as Hex Out Tapes, Chocolate Monk and Research laboratories.

Even within an already microscopic community of oddballs resident among Brighton’s experimental art and music underground, Teignmouth Electron has continually stood way out on its own through deceptively crafted, conceptually guided works drenched in fun, bizarre and often profound sentimental atmosphere. With ‘You Are Not Alone’ Hallomas takes us back in time via two archival pieces derived from tape recordings predating the official existence of the project. Material from a cassette made in 2001 is presented here as ‘From Beyond the Attic’, a pair of tracks in which a single possessed tape walkman acts as conduit for a symphony of broken electromagnetic noise and interference. Punctuating the murk are snatches of barely discernible radio broadcasts and, shockingly, nearby phone conversations somehow picked up and voyeuristically captured on the tape unbeknownst to the callers. Where these tracks are presented largely unedited and unadorned, ‘Science TAC’ sees a more compositional strategy put to work, with Hallomas pulling apart, processing and rearranging a 1999 recording of she and her friend improvising surreal skits and zero competence musical performance.

Hallomas’ treatment of her sources situates ‘You Are Not Alone’ in a curious cross section of listening outcomes. The light touch interventions of ‘Science TAC’ bring to mind an esoteric Hörspiel production, whilst ‘From Beyond the Attic’ inhabits spaces of audio vérité and found sound art object via whacked out mail art noise experimentation. The personal significance of the recordings weaves palpable imagery and meaning into their re-use in album form, chronicling the funny, strange and emotionally transformative power of sound and image in the telling of life's tales and demarcation of its key events.