The rubber-masked figure that grinned from the cover of last year’s Modern Jester 2xLP remains the perfect poster-boy for Aaron Dilloway’s current work, an addictive blend of Goya grotesquerie with technological mischief. The neatly-attired monochrome monstrosity, mottled with the grain of poor TV reception, seemed to have been instagrammed directly from a rerun of Rod Serling’s original Twilight Zone... In contrast, the digital artwork attached to Siena, Dilloway’s latest name-your-price release, is strangely muted: a set of hazard-warning stripes sapped of any urgency through being rendered in Hanson Records’ austere black and white.
Appearing in the wake of a string of live and collaborative albums, including the limited-run Grapes and Snakes cassette (with Jason Lescalleet) and two recordings with To Live and Shave in LA’s Tom Smith (Impeccable Transparencies and the forthcoming Allein Zu Zweit), the album’s eight tracks are similarly unassuming: straight-to-digital and without individual titles, they seem in grave danger of being drowned out, their combined signals lost in Dilloway’s growing sea of noise.
Within ninety seconds, however, Siena overturns any sense of Dilloway-as-usual, as a beguiling three-second loop, consisting primarily of acoustic guitar and sampled vocal, begins to wander lazily across the stereo field. The effect is quite unlike anything in the catalogue (conjuring the sort of stoned ambiance more familiar to fans of Endtroducing than Burned Mind), yet soon turns out to be a moment of deliberate dissimulation, as explicitly ‘musical’ samples promptly disappear from the album altogether.
The seven pieces that form the bulk of Siena reflect the casual description that Dilloway has given of its creation (“Raw recordings made inside and outside in Siena Italy”), and combine to form a subtly disorientating blend of lo-fi field recording and inorganic tape sound. The overall impression is of an unexpected hybrid between Chris Watson and Masami Akita, in which any distinction between the living and the mechanical is gradually erased.
Look at the way my colleague Wesley Virgin's biography launches in this SHOCKING AND CONTROVERSIAL video.
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, Wesley was in the army-and soon after leaving-he found hidden, "SELF MIND CONTROL" tactics that the CIA and others used to obtain anything they want.
These are the same secrets lots of celebrities (notably those who "come out of nothing") and the greatest business people used to become wealthy and successful.
You probably know how you use only 10% of your brain.
That's really because the majority of your BRAINPOWER is UNTAPPED.
Perhaps this thought has even taken place INSIDE your very own head... as it did in my good friend Wesley Virgin's head around seven years back, while driving an unregistered, beat-up garbage bucket of a car without a driver's license and with $3.20 on his debit card.
"I'm very frustrated with going through life payroll to payroll! When will I become successful?"
You've been a part of those those types of conversations, right?
Your very own success story is going to be written. You just have to take a leap of faith in YOURSELF.
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