Caroline Park - Adrift

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4...according to our Clinton on Fri 03 Feb, 2012.

I bought a tape the other week. Probably the first tape I've bought since 'The Best of The Housemartins' back in '88 or whenever. It was by prime US songwriting genius Bill Fox and caused me to re-configure my sound system in order to incorporate a tape deck so I could hear it. If I'd put this tape in instead of the fantastic Mr Fox I would have serious concerns as to whether it was working. There's the sound of the tape going round (which presumably is not part of the music) and theres a low end hum. In the time its taken me to write this unwieldy review, the hum has continued unabated. I think it might have been joined by another hum but I'm not sure. Phil says it sounds like Eleh. Its a very pleasant hum though and may be used to solve my sleeping problems. I'm finding it most relaxing.

Caroline Park's processed sounds, full of depth and grain, swelling with both ambiance and a beautifully honed grit, creates the type of album you put on, then crank and focus, or put on and drift away. It's subjective what one can do when play is pressed for this tape. Different forms of mediation are making themselves known, you just have to choose a hole to harness and go down.

Frequency is key. How that can change shape of a room and sustain itself, slowly drifting into another realm, another territory, another shape; another state of being. Ultimately, it's the same place, the same thing. Sound is the guide... you have to decide where to go, it'll show you how to get there.

Beautifully minimal, Adrift is a warm chunk of sound that doesn't fit into typical genres standard, but never fails to deliver a true path to some sound paradise.

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