Altered Zones

On BLACK HOLE, HI FIVE, out today on French Label Atelier Ciseaux, Lawrence, KS sound collagist C V L T S lifts his looped compositions from the murky waters of cassette culture and lays them out to sparkle in the sun. “Flooded Forest” and “Microrangers” make the upper octaves of a synthesizer in a faux-piano setting seem as dazzling and awe-inspiring as the contents of your mother’s jewelry box. But they radiate with an internal warmth that can only come from plucking those black pearls from memory-- the glass beads of a remembered chandelier-- and holding them for an hour in your hand. (Visitation Rites co-premiere)

MP3: C V L T S: "FLOODED FOREST"

MP3: C V L T S: "MICRORANGERS"

BLACK HOLE, HI FIVE EP is available for digital download via Atelier Ciseaux, and in a limited edition of 30 hand-painted black cassette tapes with vintage picture postcards + free download. Video by AAVV