hi leaves

Format: LP

Label: Students Of Decay

Cat No: SOD126LP

グラスゴー拠点のアーティストFeronia Wennborgと、サウンドアーティストのSimon Weinsによるデュオsoft tissueが、オハイオ・シンシナティ拠点のエクスペリメンタルレーベル<Students Of Decay>から登場。小さな音をもとに、骨伝導やデジタルフィードバックなどの手法で実験したコラージュ作品。普段あまり使わない方向から聴覚を刺激する、繊細で予測不能なアブストラクトサウンドが心地よい一枚◎


“hi leaves” is the new full-length record from soft tissue, the duo of Glasgow-based artists Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins. Following their self-titled debut for Penultimate Press in 2019, this collection examines microsound by way of extended amplification technique, bone conduction, domestic recordings, and digital feedback. Tracks like “plant pot” and “kettle” appear to disclose their source material, presenting wonderfully tactile environments of highly articulate sound. Wennborg and Weins prove themselves to be masterful arrangers of discrete, organic material, weaving together knotty and immersive compositions from these sharp, prickly sounds. Ultimately, soft tissue inhabits an intoxicating soundworld somewhere in between the patient abstractions of composerly EAI music, the haptic indulgences of ASMR, and the diffuse digital pastorals of the 90’s a-musik/Cologne scene.