Most of the time, minimalist electronic music leaves me cold. And yet every once in a while, for a totally inexplicable reason, I find myself mesmerized and totally tuned in to the sounds. That’s the case with ITERAE, a collaboration by Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin, which features both performers on Fender Rhodes electric pianos and added electronics, plus live editing by Branciforte. The eight untitled pieces tend to be soothing and dreamy, streams of sound in which you can easily lose your sense of self completely for a while. Naturally this is even more effective on headphones. The {greyfade} label has released ITERAE “as a multi-disc edition at the scale of a vinyl LP. The album’s material is distributed across four 80mm compact discs (plus a full-length CD for continuous playback), extending the music’s structural logic into physical form.” I don’t know much about “structural logic;” all I know is the consistently relaxed feeling that these electronic musings provide.
Greyfade GF011; Joseph Branciforte (Rhodes el p, elec, live editing) Jozef Dumoulin (Rhodes el p, elec); no recording information available; eight untitled tracks; 68:09. www.greyfade.com
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