Badminton, The Volleys by Seeded Plain
Public Eyesore is a restless creative child of Bryan Day, who is a galaxy of invention, wit and intelligence in a world of formatted contents and algorithms. Not only he publishes his own music and the music of people he collaborates with or who put out their compositions without his personal involvement but he also organises workshops, gigs and foremost - he designs and builds his own instruments which he then uses in his live experiments, improvisation and composition.
Badminton, The Volleys is a cure little release that Bryan and Jay Kreimer have accomplished doing together under moniker Seeded Plain - where else but in Baroda, Hyderabad and Bangalore, India with a little help of their friend Trishant Shetty who is on vocals in the last track - Hyderabad Two.
Four tracks on this cd are tight , driven and dynamic improvisations of self-built instruments. They have the structure of improvised electroacoustic music with a direct way, towards musique concrete. The noisemakers duo is both beautifully chaotic when you approach it as an outsider, not really understanding the music in this genre. But an attentive listener will find lots of interesting bits for herself/himself.
The way towards creating squelches, glitches, moments of suspense - look at track 3 for instance - Bangalore - is just impossible. Not only it takes a special skills but also an intuitive compositional mind to steer and navigate the improvisation towards those points.
Public Eyesore is a trademark of great quality and invention - with such releases it will stay this way for good.
Recorded in Baroda, Hyderabad and
Bangalore India in October 2022
Mastered by Jeff Kaiser
Photos by Jay Kreimer and Pooja Usha
Cover collage by Jay Kreimer, painted by
Rajendra from Kamal Painter, Baroda
Seeded Plain is Jay Kreimer and Bryan Day
on invented instruments
Trishant Shetty on vocals on Hyderabad Two
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