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Loren Chasse alrady had a prolific career with
Id Battery (a collaboration with Brandon LaBelle), that yielded the albums
Lily Events (Unique Ancient Tavern, 1996),
Last Blue Before Black (Unique Ancient Tavern, 1998),
Unique (Ancient Tavern Ecstatic Yod, 1998),
and Inferno From An Occult Diary (S.I.W.A., 1999), dedicated to Swedish
writer August Strindberg.
They are cauldrons of concrete, ambient and industrial pieces. The dynamics
is rather random, and the timbres become characters in a theatre of the absurd.
His ideas of "the microphone as an extended ear" are best expressed in
ambient minimalist works that mix manipulated found sounds and electronic
sounds simulating natural sounds:
Siphon Glimmers (Unique Ancient Tavern, 1997),
Exfolia Motors (Unique Ancient Tavern, 2000),
Synthesis of Neglected Places (Unique Ancient Tavern, 2001),
Coelacanth (Blessed cursed, 2001), a duo with Jim Haynes (theoretician
of "the poetics of decay"),
Fantasy Apparition (S'agitarecordings, 2002).
Chasse launched his solo career in the realm of digital glitch music
(plus fire, surf, wind and trees)
with Hedge Of Nerves (Anomalous, 2002).
They basically document sound sculptures
of musique concrete and interactive electronic/digital music.
Chasse is mainly known as one fourth of
the improvisational group Thuja, which he founded with
Smith and Donaldson of Mirza
and pianist Rob Reger.
Blithe Sons is Loren Chasse and Mirza's guitarist Glenn Donaldson, who have released the CDROMs
Dirt And Clouds (Jewelled Antler, 2000), which was equal parts studio recordings and field recordings, and Waves Of Grass (Jewelled Antler, 2001), which blended field and studio sounds.
Also recorded "in the fields" was We Walk The Young Earth (Family Vineyard, 2003), their third and most ornate album, featuring an impressive orchestration of guitar, harp, harmonium, wind chimes, cymbals, gongs, keyboards, banjo, and found sounds. The result is, nonetheless, humble and subdued, recalling the most spaced-out psychedelia of the 1960s.
The chants of The Book of Names and All Children's Faces Looking Upwards hark back to ancestral pastoral folk music, while
Green Patterns adds a sinister mood, and
The Oldest Living Things (18 minutes) creates a rainbow of emotions.
Green Mansions (Jewelled Antler, 2003) was even "played" by animals
attracted to the stringed instruments by food.
Field recordings around the San Francisco seashore constitute the center of
mass of
Arm Of The Starfish (Family Vineyard, 2004).
Of, another Chasse project, debuted with the instrumental album
The Infant Paths (Jewelled Antler, 2003),
that processes/mixes natural sounds and instruments.
Coelacanth's The Glass Sponge (23five, 2003) collects
four lengthy ambient droning/hissing pieces from various live
performances.
Coelacanth's Mud Wall (The Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2004) finds Chasse
and Jim Haynes improvising with rock, rust, wind, water, metal, etc.
Wrack Light In Copper Ruin (Seal Pool, 2006) was a collaboration with
multimedia artist Keith Evans and with Matmos.
Chasse's pastoral solo
The Air In The Sand (Naturestrip, 2005)
was the ideal follow-up to Hedge Of Nerves.
The Moon Is Down (Jewelled Antler, 2006) and
Noctilucent Valleys (Soft Abuse, 2007) were credited to Ov, meaning
a (dreamy) collaboration with his wife Christine Chasse.
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