suspenseful melancholy (Levy Attend
the 2006 Venice Biennale (nominated Golden Lion) and lately the 2018 Ars Musica festival in Brussels
the piece sets Haino’s dynamic and dramatic performance against a calm backdrop of cycling electronics
it provides captivating proof of Lockwood’s belief in the complexity that deep listening can reveal within seemingly simple sounds
The interesting thing is how the tapes accumulate different strata of time even within a single side
Nova Scotia – Old Light [LP] Sound Art / Sound Poetry suspenseful melancholy (Levy Attend"Horn of Plenty excavates the shadowy depths of the New Zealand Aotearoa underground with Old Light, a collection of previously unreleased recordings by Nova Scotia, the experimental trio of Dean Brown, Dick Whyte, and Rick Jensen. Resting at the borders of free improvisation, noise, drone, and ecstatic ritualism, across seven tracks recorded sporadically between the early to mid 2000s the LP unveils a widely unacknowledged flowering of singular, real