No Sides Records made Disaster Amnesiac aware of Nine Times Makes Ten, a new release from Modelbau, a few months back. It took some time to get to really hearing it, though, mostly on account of the stated obsession with the Ramones debut at its 50th anniversary. With those thoughts out of the way now, it's been a bit easier to check into this quietly burning album from Dutch composer/improvisor/writer Frans de Waard. Its sounds are sourced from two reel to reel tape machines, in order to "uncover old ghosts in the machines", and in that endeavor Modelbau succeeds. The nine tracks on Nine Times Makes Ten all share an aura of mystery, each one building upon the somewhat eerie pulses of its predecessor. It's a perfect album for time spent drifting off into abstract mental zones or cloud watching. Indeed as Disaster Amnesiac sits at the keyboard and types these words, Nine Times Makes Ten's sound are perfectly framing a gloomy desert sky that's drifting across the Sonoran sky. It's great ambient music too, in the sense that one could also play it while attending to other tasks. Again, as this post is being assembled de Waard's sounds blossom in pleasing and inspiring manners that outline a mental space conducive to the imagination's wanderings. What are the source tapes from this album? Are they original recordings made by Frans? Whatever their origin, Modelbau certainly did find a way to reveal them on these broodingly intense tracks of sonic experimentation.
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