![]() The collision of synthesized and acoustic sounds, and genres usually associated with either - from Eno or Steve Roach’s ambience to Javanese Gamelan -, are intertwined so effortlessly and effectively that trying to parse out distinct sources is of foolhardy focus. ![]() Visible Cloaks “live in a weird zone where corporate Japanese ambient music meets fourth world pop abstraction” (Michael Klausman, Other Music). The music of Visible Cloaks - the duo of Spencer D and Ryan Carlile, previously known as just “Cloaks” - has been bubbling under the surface of the already rich situation of experimental electronic song-smiths that exists in Portland, OR., and with only a handful of limited CDRs, a few tape releases (the most recent of which came out last year on Cameron “Sun Araw” Stallones’ Sun Ark Editions) and a string of albums released exclusively in Japan, we’ve had to rely on catching them live to find out where they’d been exploring, and what new environments they’d recreate for us. ![]() Visible Cloaks: s/t (Musique Plastique) LP Heavy week! So many big releases in this week, I hope your wallet has had time to recover from Record Store Day! And with that, I’ll leave you to it, I’ve got boxes piling up around here… ![]()
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