v-p v-f is v-n 7" compilation series, 7001

One of my more favorite microsound labels, Winds Measure Recordings, three new releases, of which one is on 7", so perhaps they are slowly expanding their imperium. The 7" is a compilation with twenty tracks, of which five are lock grooves and fifteen are about minutes. Usual suspects are here, such as Jeph Jerman, Richard Garet, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Lawrence English, Ben Owen, Ilya Monosov but also mpld, Tommy Birchett and Ben Scott. A 7" full of miniatures, very much unlike the musical scene where this comes from, when pieces are much longer. However the musical elements are there, of crackling, motorized drones, hiss and obscured tape and field sounds. I am not sure why this was made or what the idea behind is, but in all its briefness it sounds it sounds very nice. Strangely coherent, like a microsound collage cut-up.

Vital Weekly 631, reviewed by Frans de Waard