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Release Date: 2020-12-18Label: Complex Holiday
Kurt Buttigieg is an occasional artist and unwavering bricoleur from Malta, based in Brussels, Belgium.•
"The building blocks of this release are repurposed vinyl, hand-spooled tape, slowed-down microcassettes and field recordings on different media.
Unfolding is my first proper album in about a decade. I wasn't particularly compelled to release anything. I kept making field recordings and collecting 'useful' records for years, without going back to them. Eventually, I sat down and started listening through.
The inevitable followed. I started cutting, altering and weaving the sounds together: sine waves from a test record were transformed into drones that cleaned the dust off my speakers, the recorded pendulum of a grandfather clock tuned into another rhythm, water sounds from a television library record (previously belonging to the Belgian state broadcaster and picked up at a jumble sale) all found their place in the mix.
Every sound effortlessly suggested another. Time looped to time, backwards.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it and, especially, as much as it enjoyed making itself".
Cassette: limited to 50 copies
Digital copies: unlimited ∞
Illustrations courtesy of Léo Quievreux (Merci, Léo!)