Joel Stern - Objects, Masks, Props (NS3006)

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Naturestrip presents a new set of compositions by Australian sound artist Joel Stern
Brisbane based but often found wandering throughout Australia and regions far further out, Joel Stern, has been restlessly, compulsively, devising, capturing, constructing this album on and off  over the past 6 and a bit years (2001-2008). Created from instrumental debris, snatches of  environmental sound (Ethiopia, India, Toowoomba, his lounge room), and a poetic sensitivity for incoherence, Objects.Masks.Props, is the clearest and most potent reflection yet of Joel’s musical and artistic approach somewhere between music concrete, art brut, free noise, cinema, abstraction, and the farmyard.. .’

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a psychotropic travelogue of an unmapped realm between Jon Hassell’s fourth world and Pierre Henry’s laboratory throat singing bees rabid dogs minimalist patterns looped chants a fevered dream a mournful lament the hum and crackle of decaying beauty tickle the inner ear fragments of melody detuned strings sound swept through an open window seeds passing one hand to the other an ebbing accordion tapestry of the found and created a cinema for the third eye
(Leighton Craig - August 08)