i8u’s 29 Palms takes its inspiration from her recent experience at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. Through the use of field recordings, various analog equipment and computer processing, i8u explores her response to the isomorphic spaces she encountered. 29 Palms takes form as a single track that ebbs and flows from high frequency minimalist moments to lush drone swells. These counterpoints weave together to create a truly unique space for the listener to inhabit that is both expansive in its emptiness and personal in its inclusive embrace.
i8u
29 Palms
de5030
- Duration:
- 41:00
- Format:
- CD-R, Streaming
- Edition:
- 200
- Release Date:
- November 1, 2010
- Cover:
France Jobin
- Track Listing:
- 29 Palms
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
- Spotify
Press:
May 14, 2011
Jobin’s pacing remains quite brilliant throughout, especially evident in the very quiet midsection, where one has to remain focused to discern for changes, and although subtle, they are there.
April 9, 2011
Its single long format tract eschews a linear narrative in favour of ineffable dwellings and unwonted divergences; for all that it dwells on spaces it creates, its audio-visualizations constantly shift, between deeply textured dronal swells and billows and attenuated higher end microsonics…
February 20, 2011
Plages minimalistes et déserts sonores font de cet album un petit bijou pour les amateurs d’une ambient façon microsound. On conseillera tout particulièrement ce travail aux fans de Richard Chartier ou William Basinski, en attendant d’en écouter un peu plus.
January 10, 2011
…[a] long drone that provokes the idea of a reserved majesty and wavers on a sharp note impressing itself on the consciousness.
December 31, 2010
Plamen Hubenov, Richard Chartier, & Spiritual Archives.
December 6, 2010
Starts with a quite dark atmosphere unfolding a drone section out of thick layers of a sustained synth line, oscillating sounds and crackle noises, and ends with an inspiring melody.
December 1, 2010
Soft residues of static and wavering tones commingle within a sonic space largely inhabited by gently droning swells of nearly imperceptible ebb and flow.
November 30, 2010
One of the most successfully subtle recordings of the year…