Vanishing Point by Fergus Kelly

 










Fergus Kelly strikes again with his new album which seems like a continuation of ''Natural History'' from September. 
I cannot emphasize it enough how ingenious Fergus is. The only match in the few recent years to what he is doing and how he blends not only different techniques but also different moods, compositional techniques and the expertise of different materials and acoustics related to them is simply unique and impossible to match to anything I have recently i.e. last 10 years heard. 
You could probably put it in the sublabel of  a musique concrète but with modern software editing that has happened here.
Fergus is a careful composer which means that he takes a very considerate risks in terms of how he plunges into a polyrhythmic world and gets the best bits out of it - making edits, processing it and finally putting all of it into neat compositions. And neat doesn't mean they are crystal clear, academically adequate compositions. On the contrary - there is so much nuance here in terms of distortion and error aesthetics that blends perfectly all his trademarks of using percussive objects to the extent of impossible tactics made possible.
The narrative of this album is just ingenious - there is no unnecessary sounds or breaks or anything that could distract your attention.
An imaginative journey through the stations of bliss, perception dissonances and  upheaval that leads to the moments of balance when everything you hear makes a complete and a perfect sense. 


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