Ypsmael+Eloine-Lost Teeth; Chocolate Monk Records #552; 2022

 

Bryan Day has Public Eyesore/eh? Records churning again, after what seemed to be a pause of sorts. Before Disaster Amnesiac gets to some of that output, a quick stop is needed over at Chocolate Monk Records for Lost Teeth, a cool collaboration between Ypsmael and Eloine, the latter of which is a performance name which Day uses at certain times, while the former Day has documented on his labels. 

Lost Teeth features eight tracks of Electro-Acoustic invesigations, all of which strike this listener as some kind of through composed vision, very visually stimulating in its movements. Disaster Amnesiac has seen it more than once as a city, one that is virtually constructed within the perceptions, one that exists within some other mental sphere or dimension. This on account of the spaciousness of the instrumental interactions knitted together by Ypsmael and Eloine especially.

Across its roughly forty minutes duration, these two sound artists coax strange, cool tones from instruments, voices processed and/or not processed, field recordings, and found objects. It all hangs together less as a maelstrom and more as a meditation. Picture it if you will as a walk through those virtual streets painted by the tones that emanate from the creativity of these two practitioners. Disaster Amnesiac has especially enjoyed trying to identify Eloine/Day's inventions, as time was I was familiar with them as objects seen on the 3D plane. These days, I have to see them within different dimensions, but that's fine, as they sound as cool to me therein, popping and scraping like some junkyard gamelan.

Ypsmael brings a bit of darkness to the proceedings, throwing disembodied voices out at random intervals, which make Disaster Amnesiac feel like I'm walking along fogged in, cobbled streets way after sundown, slight tremors of fear tingling down my central nervous system. His drums processing is nervy, too, as he makes their sounds smear and wobble along with his baritone guitar tones and other objects. 

Lost Teeth sees the sounds from Ypsmael and Eloine mixed into a clearly heard field of intrigue and sonic adventure for those who desire a bit more than verse/chorus/verse etc. from their listening time. If one finds oneself in that camp, Disaster Amnesiac advises to steer on over to Chocolate Monk's web page, because this record is limited to sixty copies, and I'm aware that Seymour Glass has one along with me. Surely, there must be fifty-eight adventurous weirdos still out there among the living......