Currently at casa de Amnesiac, there exists a stack of Public Eyesore/eh? Records product which still needs to be listened to. This fact is brought up as related to the latest release of Eloine,
Impractical Furniture (dig that almost Hipnosis styled cover art!), because I've desired to listen to it a lot more than the three times it's graced the cassette deck. That said, time's moving very quickly, and Disaster Amnesiac always feels compelled to listen to the music that's being described as much as possible. Tapes such as this can certainly be played over and over again, as its mysterious and intuitively intriguing soundscapes offer new facets for the listener with each subsequent interaction. When one chooses to engage with sounds such as these, especially in the case of Bryan Day's singular solo work, with its unique rhythms and phrases, pulled from his portable exotic percussion amalgamation, one can always be treated to fresh, undiscovered aspects within the sound matrix.
Impractical Furniture kicks off with
Rubber Sawhorse, a longer track which evokes human sounding voices along with some deep tonally bass passages and bass drum sounds. I've heard it as a junkyard Gamelan ensemble. This is followed off with
Sunken Corners and its dramatically moving sub-harmonics and subdued, eerie environments. Its coda passage is surprising and lovely.
Potluck By Proxy kicks off side b of the tape with a frenetic start. It rather quickly gets more contemplative with its overtones, melodies from resonant metals, before some type of robotic warfare commences. Disaster Amnesiac has heard AI voices being drawn from Day's very analog rig on this one. Track two,
Guiltlines, has high register clicks that dialogue with lower register ones for a very dramatic effect. It has waves of energy that are simultaneously intimate in their motions.
Impractical Furniture ends with
Bread Welder Again, a title worthy of prime Beefheart, a track with more quick pacing that leads to more overall Drone and clacking until its repetitive sound conclusion. It's another fine release from Bryan's Eloine project. Day's sound art seeks the beauty to be found in funky, unlikely sound sources. His rigs often look to Disaster Amnesiac like small cities or chip boards, and it's highly recommended that one see him perform live. Bryan Day must be highly intuitive, for he always makes such well considered and thoughtful sounds. It's completely alright to live by intuition you know.
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