Cassette Gods: DANIEL VINCENT and ATAY ILGUN "Fragments of Sound" c40 (Tape Your Mouth)

DANIEL VINCENT and ATAY ILGUN "Fragments of Sound" c40 (Tape Your Mouth)

Fragments Of Sound

What a pleasant surprise. This is a very lovely mellow psychedelic tape; the first release from UK label Tape Your Mouth. Daniel Vincent and Atay Ilgun perform a very beautiful dance of intertwining electric and acoustic instrumentation. Cosmic sounds give way to intricate guitar patterns producing deep lysergic ripples. This is a collection of very mature and thoughtful pieces of instrumental music that were all recorded on one day this past November. Highly recommended for fans of the musical passages on Comus' "First Utterance" or of Time-Lag artists like Joshua Burkett or Visitations, but sure to appeal to the analog synthesizer set as well. It's relaxing and meditative, but with a slight edge of paranoia and/or darkness.

Tape Your Mouth web-action here. The version of the album that is streaming online extends the tracks track times considerably.

I've got quite a back log of tape submissions. I will review everything eventually, but I've just moved recently and I don't have internet at home yet. If you're waiting for my comments on your music to pop up, have no fear, I will definitely get around to it soon.

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It should be obvious, this is a webzine we created to put cassette releases and the format of cassette itself on a pedestal. We are not doing this to be some sort of cassette snob, more-DIY-than-thou elitists or anything. We are doing it because all the formats that sound can be presented on are exciting and provide unique ways of shaping the listeners experience... so it is a shame that any one of these formats would fall by the wayside. Cassettes provide a listening experience that is similar to vinyl because of the intermission/moment of pause created by changing sides of the tape, but can be of almost any length between 30 seconds a side to an hour. Tapes can also be listened to in a car or while jogging.
While today this format helps keep the home label alive, its almost a dream to remember that once every musician from Michael Jackson to REM had their releases on cassette. Cassettes were a legitimate format, not just for the DIY underground. Maybe we (thats you too) are the last guardians of this format. Maybe someone, someday will popularize cassettes again. In the meantime we keep the reels turning. A little offering because at least there are a few of you that know there is more than one god of this land.

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