专辑简介

Daniel Menche专辑介绍：by Rick AndersonDaniel Menche has always been one of the most interesting and has frequently been one of the most humane and thoughtful noise artists on the Important Records roster, so it's rather sad to report that this disc is reportedly going to be his final CD release -- future projects will be either vinyl-only or will be films in DVD format with his music as accompaniment. But if he wanted to make sure his audience wouldn't feel too badly about this planned career shift, he could hardly have done so more effectively than with this basically unlistenable program. Glass Forest is a three-track album; each track is simply numbered one through three. The first is a 24-minute-long variegated blast of horrific noise; it starts innocently enough, with a dark low-end drone punctuated by flickering glitches, but then quickly swells and devolves into blasts and grunts and hellacious groanings. The second track focuses more on the high end, and at a low enough volume is more or less bearable: it starts off sounding like a mangled recording of a telephone ringing, and then passes through a long stage of sounding like the EKG of a very nervous and unhealthy heart patient before blossoming into the sounds of rain and gentle gunfire along with a persistent high drone. The third track blends midrange percussion sounds with another telephone sound, this one like an old-fashioned Bakelite phone with a malfunctioning ringer; the ringing sound is modified and layered while huge raindrops fall on a tin roof overhead, and then a hammered dulcimer enters the room and plays the same three notes over and over in random order until a triangle takes over and ushers in a small gamelan ensemble. The track ends with the sound of a small boy trying to imitate a freight train using only a wooden crate. It should be very interesting to see what Menche's films look like.