KEN PEEL – LONG
DIVISION WITH REMAINDERS EP VERSION 7 (FRONT AND FOLLOW)
As the Long Division
With Remainders project arrives at the halfway point it is does so in the
strongest fashion and what I must concede is my favourite version yet. Ken Peel is a composer based in Somerset
where I can only image such vast surroundings are what allow his
interpretations to soar. There is
something wide and far reaching in these adaptations which accomplishes a
retread of beauty.
Peel describes his
work as “lounge electronica” and it certainly comes with a swing being piano
led, accompanied by chilled jazz drums with the occasional sonic interjection
for swank atmospheric thrill. These
moments add a lush mood akin to an Angelo Badalamenti indiscretion.
I’m not quite what the
intention of these reworkings is but they certainly serve to inflict a decadent
climate to proceedings, to enable a new way of mind. Unlike many of the other contributions, these works are light and
upbeat in a winning fashion.
For the second remix
the entering rhythms prove all encompassing in an almost Krautrock without
guitars sequence. That and maybe Air
with a splash of Walter/Wendy Carlos in the abstract. Certainly there is something quite continental about the future
being relayed with this release.
As the effort arrives
at the dot matrix mess of track 3, the swing returns and resumes something of a
Twin Peaks/Clockwork Orange mash. This
electronic noir, the kind of sound the gives birth to death. It is damaging technology of the most lush
distraction. A haunting exploration.
The final fix is a
suitably sedate closing affair that continues to sprinkle light right until the
end. This is the kind of stuff that
could be used for higher purposes.
Thesaurus moment:
twinkle.
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