First a small side step.
There are two types of historians: those who study human history. These are divided in historians (to keep it easy) who study mainly written material, and archaeologists who study non-written material like human remainders, pots and coins of old cultures. And then there is the historian who studies natural history: a geologist. An example of one is a palaeontologist who does research on fossils of plants and animals (and other small organisms).
The archaeologists and palaeontologist are often mixed up and with this I would like to clarify this big difference.
I hear everyone thinking now: WHY???
For explaining that we will now turn to the album Whether That Will Make People Want to Become Archaeologists We’ll Have To See by the Belgian act Blindhæð. This album consists out of field recordings which during a period of six months have been processed and layered.
The music on this single-sided 12” reminds me somehow of the Kapotte Muziek By release that was done by Five Elements Music that was reviewed here at EARLabs earlier by Jos [See here], but where that has a more urban and industrial sound here we hear something organic. Whatever the sources of the sounds are, it is being eroded to something natural sounding.
The sound oozes and cracks in and out. The piece sounds as if created by random manipulations, but probably has been well thought about. In the piece you can hear a slow development which shows the layering over time. New layers are fading in while others fade out. Because of this the piece becomes really diverse while also showing continuity.
Now getting back to the introduction part, where the title makes hints towards archaeology I would rather hint to paleontology. The layering of the music and the organic sound hints to stratigraphic sequences (the layers of different stone types through time, to keep it easy) instead of human history. But besides that, I can say the result is well done. The people who enjoy music constructed from field recordings can safely get this album and won’t be disappointed. |
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