Description:
(2020) Capac - After Lights Out with Tom Harding
Review:
The seed for After Lights Out was planted when Capac member Stuart Cook happened to hear Northampton poet Tom Hardingâs recording of âNight Workâ on the KCRW podcast Nocturne and, captivated by the crepuscular character of the material and the musicality of the poetâs elocution, contacted him to propose the collaboration that became the ten-track album, its title taken from the aforementioned poem. A fascinating project and engrossing listen, After Lights Out is the third album from long-distance experimental outfit Capac, whose members Cook, Matthew Parker, Gary Salomon, and Kate Smith are currently split between Greece and Bristol. In its creeping, haunting tone, the albumâs a natural fit for This Is It Forever, the label managed by worriedaboutsatanâs Gavin Miller. The ten pieces combine Hardingâs distinctive recitations with evocative sound design by Capac. He doesnât appear on all ten settings, however, Capac instead choosing to include instrumentals alongside ones featuring spoken word. In both cases, however, the groupâs handling of modular synthesis, field recordings, tape manipulations, acoustic instrument timbres, and vocal textures creates a sound design thatâs unsettling yet complementary to Hardingâs texts. The Harding-less overture âShadows of the Roomâ introduces the forty-three-minute recording with oppressive, dungeon-like atmospheres punctuated with the shimmer and scrape of sheet metal-like noises. The poetâs first appearance arrives with âNight Work,â his English-accented voice an arresting element alongside the lurch of a cryptic backdrop of piano, fluttering treatments, and vocal murmurings. In spoken word delivery thatâs consistently nuanced, his precise enunciation enhances the material. In anotherâs hands, a poem titled âRadioâ might be a nostalgic ode to songs from carefree teenage years; in Hardingâs, it becomes a portal for shadowy creatures: âI found the last radio / Out amongst the forgotten things / ⌠I carried it home / And kept it beside my bed / ⌠Other nights Iâd wake / To the clatter of it across the floor / And swear Iâd see some shape / Light as a fox / Slip from its shell / Into the shadows of the room.â Similar in macabre tone is âNight Noises,â where Harding, fixated on the memory of a fly he killed earlier, feels âstrange and sad / For the two of us adrift / And apportioned to poles / And set apart by the whole shabby / Business of existing.â Indicative of the symbiosis between sound design and text content, âRadioâ sees Hardingâs text repeated a number of times, each iteration increasingly degraded and static-laden. In the recordingâs boldest treatment of his delivery, heâs subjected to fragmentation during ââŚand I,â his voice appearing as stuttering repetitions and time-stretched distortions. Alteration is less extreme for âNight Notesâ though still noticeable when the voice is slowed, his regular delivery becoming stalker-like as a result.
Tracklist:
01 - Shadows of the Room
02 - Night Work
03 - The Spider
04 - Radio
05 - Train My Breath
06 - ...and I
07 - Night Notes
08 - Empty Kitchen
09 - Night Noises
10 - Quietly Conspiring
Media Report:
Genre: ambient, experimental
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits |
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