Panna II is
the champagne bottle smashing off the bow of Kole Galbraith, Josh Medina, and Sean Waple’s new label Obscure
and Terrible (huh), part of an inaugural batch also featuring a cassette drop
by Medina’s own Medina/Walsh combo. (I wrote about that one too.) Here,
veteran artist Galbraith digs his heels in and rolls through a vast
spectrum of texture and noise, utilizing field recordings and loops and
manipulating them and slathering them with effects (probably). Drawing on the
darkness of history and relations, Galbraith guides us down paths and into
hidden corners and clearings, shaking our foundations by what we find there.
Still, that kind of thing is what prepares you for
dealing with the world – those unforeseen and unfortunate discoveries catalyze mental
processes, getting your dander all up for resistance. Galbraith has resistance
in his blood, being a descendent of Colville and Sinixt tribes, and also a
member of the Peoria tribe in Oklahoma. Panna
II thus plays as stoic observation, taking in the territory, the land, and
cogitating toward the next steps in the struggle. It gets under your skin and
in your blood, and it pours down from the sky in the rain and whistles through
the trees like wind. And still that anger boils at its core, a molten furnace energizing
the body and mind toward action.
Seriously, take a listen, see if it doesn’t make you
feel the exact same way.
https://kolegalbraith.bandcamp.com/
https://obscureandterrible.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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