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Tape Signal Noise

by Sleeper Service

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Steel Legacy 15:31
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Six Hotel Seven 11:39
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Signal To Profit 13:10
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Safe Place 18:34
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Hand-wound springs. A circular saw blade. A handleless file. Chunky elastic bands. A dilapidated violin bow. A Dixons TR6 tape recorder. A dovetail hand saw. Parts of an unknown machine. A steel wire brush. A stray whammy bar…

The four soundscapes of Tape Signal Noise were created using an array of items not usually considered to be musical instruments, all wound around, dropped into, clamped onto or stretched over a grey steel box that was fabricated around fifty years ago. Melodies and known instruments can be heard, although they’re woven into and under layered washes of sound, behind clanks, cracks, crackles, rumbles, throbs and noise. The four pieces are a compressed hive of activity and darks spaces that stretch to an unknown horizon.

Steel Legacy is a steady, metronomic journey, gathering speed as it goes. A electronic drum might be heard – distorted and degrading – or is it pieces of metal? A field recording, wind ratcheting and overloading, crunches through the airwaves.

There's no doubt that Six Hotel Seven is quite bereft of what most would call a musical instrument. Hear a brush chant on steel, clanks clank and thuds thud. Numbers stations threaten any chance of tranquility.

Signal To Profit crawls into focus slowly, from a spacious collection of noises, ticks and crackles, into an unfolding mass of overlapping voices, until a medley of unexpected regular instrumentation builds and then drops.

The washes of noise reach their zenith on Safe Place, where they drown several simple and repetitive figures until even any sense of a rhythm is lost for long minutes. Something close to free jazz electric piano brings colour to the closing passage, before a long and slow slide into silence.

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released July 6, 2022

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Sleeper Service Edinburgh, UK

Sleeper Service is the work of Scottish artist Stewart Bremner, an occasional maker of music for his own entertainment since the late nineties. Here be found sounds, field recordings, loud guitars and synths.

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