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Ascoltare Visceral Vendor

Tripel 001 / cd album

2004

headacres

spondulix

buddypals

sweet whistle stop

señor drool cup

kitchen promises

ice-cream sing

pachinko

solemn jets

a place of gathering excellence

calico jane )))

single sine solitude

sai reclining

mako schooling

please let my sick head settle

lynch grey / kitano blue

Launching new UK label Tripel Records, Ascoltare's debut finds the space between electronica and experimental rock. This new project from Dave Henson, previously of post-rockers Gwei-Lo (Bella Union), is Gwei-Lo (Bella Union), is an intensely focused standoff between bittersweet melodic warmth and gritty, abstract precision. Walking the same kinds of intuitive melodic paths as that project, with Ascoltare, Henson's sound has evolved to include a diversity of influences from vintage and lofi electronica, digital noise, and beyond. Shifting, hand-assembled beats are bound with fragile yet quietly optimistic instrumental lines, and natural and lofi digital textures, to form a complex and constantly unfolding sound. Like lone and determined hybridisers such as Four Tet, Ascoltare explores the still-fertile territory between electronica and other genres. Other reference points could include Vert (Sonig), the post-electronica of the Carpark label (Greg Davis, Hrvatski), and the frenetic sonic moodswings of Warp's Chris Clark.