Scraps by Whitehill//Possidente
‘Scraps’ is the result of intensive exploration, invention, assemblage, processing, editing, re-editing and continued exploration.
From sparse, brittle foundations, noted Berlin-based improvisers Paolo Possidente (Pietra Tonale, PhoLo0, Blueing electronics) and Benjamin Whitehill (M/S/M/S, Scree Fucking Junk, Ystlum Gwyn), alongside esteemed vocal improvisor Erika Sofia Sollo (Lapsus Lumine) on some tracks, have spun a web of multi-textured, warped abstraction, taking the path of most resistance from the groundwork up to the final garnishes.
The eight tracks presented on ‘Scraps’ are like snapshots of exercises in constant scrutiny; nothing is fixed, every element is in constant motion. ‘Scraps’ acts more like a proposition. a possible result of a more much elaborate and complex inquiry into how far you can bend and warp structure, tone and texture itself before it becomes blissfully untethered from its origins.
Tracklist
| 1. | Scrap 1 | 5:31 |
| 2. | Scrap 2 | 3:33 |
| 3. | Scrap 3 | 9:20 |
| 4. | Scrap 4 | 3:41 |
| 5. | Scrap 5 | 4:21 |
| 6. | Scrap 6 | 6:20 |
| 7. | Scrap 7 | 3:19 |
| 8. | Scrap 8 | 5:01 |
Credits
Benjamin Whitehill - guitar, various devices
Paolo Possidente - drums, objects, devices
featuring Erika Sofia Sollo - voice on Scraps 2 and 3
Recorded in Berlin, March 2023.
Recorded, edited and mixed by Benjamin Whitehill and Paolo Possidente.
Mastered by Neonliberal.
Venalism V36
License
All rights reserved.
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