ANDREW PEKLER - NEW ENVIRONMENTS & RHYTHM STUDIES

1. Globestructures
2. Rhythm Study 1
3. Fabulation for K
4. Rhythm Study 2
5. Cumbria Para Los Grillos
6. Rhythm Study 3
7. Cymbals In The Mist
8. Rhythm Study 4
9. Intermittent Chimes and Organ
10. Rhythm Study 5
11. Globestructures_ Options II
12. Rhythm Study 6

Experimental artist Andrew Pekler combines samples, field recordings and electronic and acoustic instruments on his latest work 'New Environments & Rhythm Studies', a 12-track album on the Berlin-based Faitiche imprint.

Notes from the label - 

New Environments & Rhythm Studies finds Andrew Pekler returning to the humid zones he explored on previous albums such as Sounds From Phantom Islands and Tristes Tropiques. Split between longer immersive compositions and shorter glimpse-like sketches, these 12 tracks feature new juxtapositions of Pekler's familiar palette of synthetic field recordings, warm, undulating electronic textures, shifting percussion patterns and serene melodies.

As with much of his recent work, Pekler's compositions here are structured around the beguiling effect of synthetic and non-synthetic sounds mirroring, mimicking and modulating one another. The teeming atmospheres within tracks such as Globestructures, Cymbals In The Mist or Globestructures: Option II are, despite their seemingly anthropogenic nature, entirely synthetic. Elsewhere, the lopsided grooves of Cumbia Para Los Grillos or Fabulation For K are derived from recordings of crickets and other insects which Pekler loops and uses to trigger electronic percussion – producing a pleasantly skewed rhythmic base for the fragments of melody which are layered on top. The six Rhythm Studies also follow the same principle – a playful interweaving of the organic and synthetic.

New Environments & Rhythm Studies is a further attempt to re-describe past tropes which laid claims to authentically represent music and sound from beyond the Western world (exotica, ethnomusicology, field recording) as undertakings of the imaginary.

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