JACOB DERAADT

I first knew Jacob’s work as Sterile Garden, which I enjoyed immensely: “wonderfully uncomfortable” electronics, let’s call it. this release, his second solo work under his own name, is primarily field recordings—as Jacob says, it focuses on “water and natural and urban domestic sounds of places I lived in, with very little or no effects or manipulation.” personally, this feels a bit of a descriptive oversimplification, if only because the choices of sounds to capture (and then present here) reflect Jacob’s ear for creating small “scenarios” with each track. akin to what I noted with tac, Jacob is definitely playing on the same side of the street as jeph jerman, albeit by slightly different rules....

edition of 45 copies.

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