Tanner Menard - Canopy of Sky on Black

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 28 Aug, 2008.

Tanner Menard is the 6th artist to grace Install's 'Installation' series. Install, if you didn't know, are responsible for the recent Caretaker CD that's shook the ambient/hauntological scene up a tad recently. 'Canopy of Sky on Black' starts with the sound of someone possibly scoffing a bag of monster munch by a microphone before the waves of drone crank up and start removing parts of your conscience and displacing them in small bubbles throughout the solar system. I'm never sure how to review this kind of music as it's like trying to pass comment on the hum of an electrical generator heard through elaborate earpieces made out of tiny seashells & minute prisms, each slight turn you make refracts the audio sensation, like a sonic hall of mirrors (thanks Ant!) It's fucking good anyway, very transcendental & uplifting with tons of atmosphere, a dense, riveting tapestry of heavenly sound.

Tanner Menard's desert-opus Canopy Of Sky On Black. We're told that Menard assembled this 48-minute wall of organic sound from one recording of atmospheric noise using a vlf reciever, 60 miles outside of Phoenix, Arizona, avoiding the city's disruptive power grid. Over the course of this extremely lively sonic trip, electrical drones hum and wither under a spattering menagerie of wet rocks and what sounds like the actual frequency of life itself after Menard zoomed into it microscopically and documented it. Extremely raw, psychedelic and brutal all at once, and absolutely commanding when listened to at loud volume levels. A powerful display of art and nature!

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