Jerman, Jeph

Arrastre [VINYL + CD]

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"We have a set of surprisingly resonant pot lids in our kitchen, which I've used in various recordings in the past and one night while doing the dishes I had the idea to try playing them in the manner of tibetan singing bowls, by dragging a thick wooden dowel around their rims. I found that with a little practice this worked well, so I made a multi-track recording of four of them. I then, as I am want to do, became obsessed with this idea, buying up piles of pot lids from local second-hand shops and making more recordings, some using as many as ten different lids. after two months of this activity I was left with over two hours of recordings of resonant metal drones, which I enjoy so much that I thought I'd share them all.

arrastre is the spanish word for drag, and also the name of a 19th century mining apperatus, wherein large boulders were drug around an ore-filled pit by means of a large spindle and arm, driven by pack animals."-jeph jerman