Stef Lewandowski

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Black To Comm — Black To Comm

Black To Comm — Black To Comm (TYPE120)

When
Nov 2014
Cover of Black To Comm by Black To Comm
Artwork: Andreas Diefenbach

This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.

Now Richter is back with Alphabet 1968's proper followup, a sprawling double album pieced together with crumbling samples, vocal snippets and an arsenal of noise generators and filters. There are real songs hidden somewhere, but disintegrated by Richter's sound manipulation techniques and dissolved into soupy extended drone marathons. The centerpiece is undoubtedly 'Is Nowhere', which builds slowly over 20 minutes with rumbling organ sounds and buzzing filters. Black To Comm is a deeper, more challenging record than its predecessor, but one which repays the patient listener.

Made at Type.

Around the same time

Earlier in music: Jon Mueller & Duane Pitre — Inverted Torch. Later in music: High Aura'd & Mike Shiflet — Awake.