Marcia Bassett-Phosphorescent Reality Flickers; No Sides Records 2025

 

In 2025, it makes almost zero sense to release a 3 inch CD, but that's exactly what No Sides Records has done in the form of Phosphorescent Reality Flickers by modular synth player/vocalist Marcia Bassett. The connoisseur of finely crafted Electronic Music that does not own a CD player with a spindle will be happy to know that the album can also be streamed at Bandcamp, as Disaster Amnesiac has done and is in fact doing right now. Headphones are place over the ears and I'm listening to this album that drifts into the slowed down zones of analog synth exploration that Marcia has spent years dwelling within. It's a recording with impactful and clearly well considered sounds. The vocalizing is spooky with its wordless sound formations and adds to the tensions built up by layered electronic sounds that set themselves up, stick around for a while, and then dissolve into new ones. Particularly compelling are the sounds that are generally classified as being "vintage": those high end squiggles and whirls that bring up images of deep space exploration and inner earth journeys. These aspects, framed by the more current tones of all-out terror and Noise aesthetics where crunchy earth moving blocks are summoned, along with said vocalise, make for an interesting twenty two minutes of sonic exploration. What other cool projects is Bassett involved with?