WHΛLT THISͶEY / The Phlod-Nar / el_masmore / Claus Poulsen:
THING
ACUF 1006 // CD (ltd. ed. 100 copies)
Tracklist :
1-Dreams are the seedlings of realities
2-nadie se conoce by Phlod-Nar
3-illuminated by el_masmore
4-veritcal horizon by Claus Poulsen
In 2024, attenuation circuit continues its series of four-way split albums called THING. The aim is to provide a medium for exchange and presentation of a great variety of artists. As each artist spreads the copies to their network, listeners also get to know the other artists featured on the same disc. The title references the fact that the CDs are physical objects – things! – but also refers to the 'thing' or 'ding' in old Norse and other Germanic languages, which designates the place of a popular assembly or the assembly itself and thus alludes to the 'meeting-place' character of the albums on (or around) which the four artists and their audiences meet, if only virtually.
Issue number six in the THING series starts with a calm, melancholic, piano-based track by WHΛLT THISͶEY with an almost Satie-like flavour: musique d'ameublement as ambient music in the original sense, so to speak. The following track by The Phlod-Nar is also piano-based, but with a more nervous, pulsating character. This restless mobility is something that also characterises track three, by el_masmore, but here the dominant timbre is glitchy electronics. The fourth and final track by Claus Poulsen is a more droney piece of electronica, starting off with a sharp siren-like sound, which over the course of the piece calms down to something like foghorns, organs, or perhaps whales. With this tranquil ending, the album comes full circle at the end of a sonic journey through different atmospheres.
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released March 3, 2024