On — Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not (TYPE062)
- When
- Jul 2010
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.
Boomkat, which stocked the label, still lists this record, filed under Modern Classical / Ambient.
'Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not' is the third album from Sylvain Chauveau and Steven Hess under their On moniker, and continues their excavation of abstracted experimental sounds. As with the previous records, improvisations were recorded in a studio in Chicago and then handed to a guest musician to rework in whichever way they saw fit, and this time around the guest musician is none other than experimental pioneer Christian Fennesz. Fennesz has treated the source sounds with a distinct lightness, allowing them to creak and breathe. This is not an exercise in easy listening — rather here is an album that demands close attention, and one where the beauty truly is in the details.
Made at Type.
Earlier in the catalogue: Indignant Senility — Plays Wagner Volume 2 TYPE059. Later in the catalogue: Yellow Swans — Going Places TYPE063.