Asheville. North Carolina. Illustrateur makes with
the drone; Illustrateur makes with the ambient noise. Originally released for
“Noize Fest 2019/Burger Records Revolution 7” (ew), the tape itself is long
sold out, so don’t hurt yourself trying to find a copy. Maybe Discogs has your
back. Or maybe Discogs has turned its back on you. You never know with Discogs.
Tonalism
presents long-form dronalism, with snippets of sound of course. A piano appears
through the crispy static; the sources warp in and out. A track like “Dirge”
subverts convention and hits you with a bombast of sonic gravel. A track like
“As the boulder breaks into feathers/The Glass Princess weeps” sounds exactly
like a boulder shattering, becoming feathers, and a weeping Glass Princess.
Well, in a sort of representative way, anyway.
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