CSKA - Tapesong

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 14 May, 2009.

What's going on with these Eastern Bloc football team names? Spartak have been kicking about (no pun intended) for a while and now there's CSKA releasing a 3" CD on Low Point.. That's two whole projects, surely enough to get a tenuous review intro out of I think. There's a really interesting process behind Tapesong which involved them taking a cassette of Bengali folk then excavating a variety of latent tones from the recording in order to reconstruct them as abstract drone pieces that (I guess) bear no resemblance at all to the source material. Cool stuff but if that's of no interest to you then suffice to say this features some pretty tasty sounds in its own right. I'm particularly liking the thin, eerie qualities which mark it out from the rest of the droney ambient pack. It's like playing Silent Hill or summat.

Following on from remixes completed for Spartak and Austin Bejamin Trio, ‘Tapesong’ is the first recorded output by c.s.k.a, a mysterious Australian musical project formed upon the notion of utilising acoustic and apparently non-musical sources within the compositional process.

Using only a Bengali folk song cassette as source material, this was then subjected to live computer manipulation to create the material for this release, a 15 minute, three song suite of bell tones, flickering sirens and sleeping patterns.

Whilst the choice of source material may initially seem like an obstruction, the processing applied extracts previously unheard tones and melodies hidden from inside the magnetic tape, the cassette presented as an instrument within itself.

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