Akystret
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
(Chocolate Monk) LP $30.00
Soothing and interspersed with claustrophobic fogfall, Akystret tape-manipulates Brightonese baritone guitar, layered effects, and wind rustling in dissolving foliage, among other things, based on single-mic live recordings recent and ancient from East Anglia and in a sullen boxroom turned home during a prolonged episode of insomnia. The title is a mere sound, extracted from a digital handheld device left running when trying to find sleep, recording somniloquist mumblings during nightmare-ridden patches of sleep. A kind of onomatopoeic mystery resonating from a voice and in a language other than one’s own. Or perhaps of one’s own but from a place only to be accessed in a state of nausea and exhaustion, to an extent that unconscious speech meanders its way from the meaningless cosmos of the mind into a vacant vessel for sound. White vinyl edition of 60. CDR edition of 60.