On the other end of the Northwest music spectrum, sound artist Yann Novak (yannnovak.com) recently released a full-length titled Fade Dis/Appearances. Originally commissioned by the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group for an interpretive dance piece, the album is a pitch-perfect gem, with Novak fluttering through nine compositions. Unknown Pleasures can’t help but imagine the dancers never toughed the ground. Fade is minimalism at its finest, conjuring as much as possible out of as little as possible. That some of these tracks manage to be so effective while doing so little is nothing short of musical sorcery.
– Eli Anderson