Originally Posted by
per anporth
I think that anyone who enjoyed Ghost Rhythms' extraordinary musical reflection of Vertigo will be intrigued by this work. Of course, in Vertigo, Carlotta Valdes is a lost twin of Madeleine, just as Madeleine is a lost twin of Judy.
We are familiar enough with music that pays hommage to predecessors, acknowledged or unacknowledged. Perhaps more intriguing is the possibility of music that is somehow haunted by lost "twins", or predecessors, which somehow come to haunt present works. How might the composer or the musician respond to the return of this lost music, of these absent precursors? - how might it be possible to hear the trace of what no longer resonates?
Where Xavier's music offers one answer to this through spiralling melodies & fracturing rhythms, the work of Burial & artists on the Ghost Box label allow surface noises (the pops & crackle of vinyl, the hints of voices from analogue radio tuning, echoes of found sounds) to become integral components of their music.
I think both groups are exploring what are, in effect, quite novel musical spaces.
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