Altered Zones

On July 26th, Leaving Records will release SWEDISH FISH, a split cassette of ambient music from Odd Nosdam (co-founder of Anticon Records) and LR guru Matthewdavid. Most of the A-side is "Swedish Tapes," a live recording of Odd Nosdam opening for Fennesz at San Francisco's Swedish American Hall. The B-side is Matthewdavid's, featuring four extended droners including "Reunited," a wispy piece of mulched tape that's received Miko Revereza's psychedelic analog visual treatment. This time, Revereza pairs the sounds with a rotating wheel of rainbow colors that makes you start seeing things if you stare long enough. Revereza manipulates raw film and edits in real time, and detects a parallel between ambient music and the abstract video feedback he uses. Both are equally open-ended, he says, and the video "is not the kind of thing to make one feel happy or sad or to give an opinion." This allows the viewer "to experience the film as an individual." --Ian Paul Roger Nelson, Friendship Bracelet

MP3: Matthewdavid: "Reunited"

SWEDISH FISH is oiut July 26 on Leaving Records