[Af_List] ReReRe: oval

[Michael Upton]

On Mon May 12 17:43:16 CDT 2008, david fleming <davidaf at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> last i heard was the "So" project he did with the Japanese singer 
> Eriko
> Toyoda on Thrill Jockey. its actually a very good album that i 
> recommend if
> anyone hasn't heard it.

Yeah So's the last I heard involving Popp as well.  I think the 
last few Oval releases haven't involved the CD-skipping action at 
all.

A couple of tracks on the last Gastr Del Sol album (David Grubbs + 
Jim O'Rourke) had some of Popp's skippy-cd antics on them - 
hearing that stuff as beds for fairly straight-up songs showed how 
accessible experimental techniques can be.  If anything I think 
Popp has got less accessible since abandoning the skipping CD 
approach.

Re: So, it *is* hard to reconcile even starting that project with 
getting all strident about the irrelevance of emotional content in 
the music...  I don't know how he could make decisions about what 
he did without some kind of aesthetic consideration.

The source material may be quite tender but the end result's quite 
brutal, I reckon.  Definitely no washy reverbs, spacey granular fx 
or any of the usual lush-sounding treatments I'd usually expect 
from laptop-nerds meet singer-songwriter adventures.

Think I'm going to have to put on the album right now, actually! 
:)

Michael
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