andy graydon at bay

Winds Measure Recordings are steadily building a fine catalogue of what could called 'careful' music. Here they introduce me to the music of a band called EA and one Andy Graydon. I never heard of him, but the cover of his release lists the usual 'field recordings, electronics, ukulele and processing' and indeed it sounds like one could expect from this. Careful microsound like music. Or as some people would say 'ambient glitch'. Graydon plays his field recordings in a highly processed fashion back to us, along with crackles, hiss and other static sounds. While I was playing this I was doing something stupid, a little manual labor thing, but fully concentrated on the music. I never thought, 'oh well, I heard this before' or something of that nature, but I was quite taken by his music, wanting to hear it from the beginning to the end, uninterrupted. I thought it was quite good, despite that it is perhaps a copy of something that I may have heard before. Especially Richard Char
tier and
Kenneth Kirschner's work comes to mind. But nevertheless quite nice.

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