sogar: basal

sog-b.jpg (17k) sogar: basal
(12k - 2001)

Yet another new microsound artist is unveiled on the mightily understated 12k label; sogar (the nom-de-processing of one Jürgen Heckel) delivers basal, a slightly glitchy tableau inhabited by teasing wraiths of almost-musicality. An especially intriguing blend!

In enigmatic beauty Ker35, sporadic motes and slithers are topped with a pretty-though-obtuse layer of cut-up chimes. A somehow slurpy rhythm spatters behind the ringing/rippling void of PE (2:42). Speckled with occasional pips of static, live recording dek here (9:31) alights into a steamy, shifting radiance pulsing with various levels of activity. Bleeping blun emits cheerful burbling tones and effervescent clickiness.

Beaming with unknown energies, L2 simply radiates within a force field of its own making. During parts of 9, a vaguely harmonica-like glare and remotely guitar-esque strums appear, making this closing number seem like a sunset campfire song from some android homeworld, sorta.

I'm not sure how sogar manages to stir relatively obscure soundforms into such curiously ear-catching transmissions... but he certainly does. Like an alien robot telling not-quite-decipherable tales which are nonetheless captivating to hear, basal's subtle eccentricities are worth a 9.0 of appreciation.

Of course you know by now that 12k is the premiere source of microsonic wonders.

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This review posted September 29, 2001

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