Vaellus 002

“delivers more scorched, crunchy jackhammer beats, combined with emotional, plaintive pads, delivering a classic set of vintage-Rephlex-style bliss, à la AFX, Caustic Window, and Cylob”

“The stone-cold, soundsystem pressure that long defined Peverelist’s label is still present, but Surgeon’s Girl submerges it below a foam of glistening, pitch-bend synth notes”

“I’d been listening to a lot of electronic dance music and was struck by the use of modular synths to create pulsing beats. I’d been spending a lot of time sitting outside listening to the wind and water, which I noticed were also pulsing. It hit me that maybe there was a way to use those sounds as a sound source to create beats.”

“Chapters of lucidity, adventures in clarity. Alignment in harmony. All encompassing. Reorientation emerges, subsequent renewal, transcendent insights, enlightened revelations. Surrender reached, acceptance embraced, liberation appears.”

“crosses into the same continuum as Chicago footwork, with stuttering samples that build thick walls of bass and flurries of wordless rhymes amid a narcotic haze of beats.”

“gives sonic form to the experience of emerging from the womb and taking one’s first breaths”

“Just at the threshold of perception, she occasionally invokes cascades of distant noise that easily can be interpreted as the ominous premonitions for natural disasters - incoming storms, earthquakes, or tidal waves. ”

“the exact sound has been interpreted countless times since, but the immersive qualities of this singular record have rarely been touched. Maybe it is down to the silvery underwater concept that ties each track together – the bubbling pads, sub-aquatic basses and muffled kick drums”

“sometimes it's all programmed step by step, sometimes played in, and sometimes defined in advance and then run off in realtime (i guess you could call that algorithmic). my spellcheck was turning realtime into teatime then”

“she continues to explore the sonic possibilities of the cello which she uses as sound source - sounds which are then processed, adding reverb, feedback and sub-bass frequencies and thus crafting sonic sculptures, rich of atmospheres and frictions.”

“a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest, lathe-cut on to a 7-inch, then scratched and abused to add texture and color, sampled, shape-shifted, and sculpted.”

“Spanning the organic and the electronic, drawing from early dub techno blueprints and comprising the beauty of his austere homeland.”

“Are you sitting comfortably? Artificial Intelligence is for long journeys, quiet nights and club drowsy dawns. Listen with an open mind.”

“feels like excavating a long barrow, it’s dark and slippery down there, damp air and blood soaked earth. It resounds with a wordless essence for about 5 minutes and then a deep primal voice, like that of the very Green Man himself, growls ‘the damson drops, the willow weeps, the river overflows’”

“I’ve always been fascinated by, on one end, the power of chords and chord progressions and songwriting, and on the other hand, the power of sound, as a raw ingredient that you can shape into making you feel cautious or scared or in love, or peaceful or calm or asleep or tired. I think those two things together have an exponential power, essentially.” [1]