JONATHAN COLECLOUGH - CAKE (original version) [SIREN RECORDS, 1998, JAPAN]

Consisting of a single evolving piece, Cake explores Coleclough’s interest and use of field recordings while employing a sensitive amalgamation of organic textures. With a delicate yet pronounced sense of droning space, including an often filmic impression of landscape, Cake manages to produce a hauntingly beautiful atmosphere that should easily engage those interested in the likes of Organum, Giancarlo Toniutti, Eliane Radigue, a.o.

Forced Exposure, July 1998

Beautiful melancholy drone music from England.

Anomalous catalogue, July 1998

Cake lasts just over 35 minutes, but is the full 35 minutes of beauty. A drone that holds the piece together, with some bell and bird calls, this is hauntingly beautiful… the effect of less is more is rather the same: mind inducing music.

Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly, Sept 1998

Extremely enjoyable, like laying down in a thick bed of white frosting. Metallic birdcalls echo out across a snowy and desolate landscape… I’m eagerly awaiting further releases. In the meantime we have this creamy mouthful – just a taste really.

Seth Nehil, ND magazine, Spring 1999

An emphasis on surprisingly rich and beautiful tones emerging out of a very dark, quiet amplification. A clatter of distant pianos fades into bleak reverberations that hint at the catacomb recordings of Lustmord with field recordings filtering through. Coleclough’s work seems to fall somewhere in between Organum’s acoustic drones and Bernhard Gunter’s requests for careful listening. Recommended drone work!

Aquarius Records, Sept 1999 ...

delicate droning sound... recommended

Staubgold catalogue, 1999

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