Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - 11 Instances of dead Letters+Words

11 Instances of dead Letters+Words

Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words

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Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - 11 Instances of dead Letters+Words

Thomas Ekelund, the man behind Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, shows us the darker areas of his mind. This is music that makes you feel. This is abstract music but with very concrete feelings hidden within. The 50 minutes of »11 Instances of Dead Letters+Words« may be seen as a collection of moods, emotions and states of awareness or just a series of tracks assembled over the course of one year. Listen, and make up your mind what - if anything - it’s all about. This is ambient music, and it shares some thoughts with Brian Eno’s »Discreet Music« philosophies. Echoes of the late 80’s Hafler Trio, minimalism which you can track down to Alvin Lucier and others, the drones — like a punk-version of Phill Niblock. There we might have it! Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words might be the anarchy in today’s sound art.

Reviews

»The ambient abstractions of Gothenburg’s Thomas Ekelund are curilously affecting, blending low resolution drones, musical and non-musical treatments and fieldrecordings with unadorned directness [...] Ekelunds rare ability to instil emotion into the machines is admirable«
- by Keith Moliné, from Wire

»It’s a piece that works particularly well as a locomotive companion. I tried this out the other day and couldn’t help but imagine the train riding the wall of sound seeping from my headphones. The rapidly shifting landscape outside seemed to exist solely as a backdrop to Dead Letters’ creation. Given the majestic beauty and generally surreal feeling of staring at a forest at 200 km/h, that’s quite a compliment.«
- by Mats Gustavsson, from Dusted Magazine

»The drone is dense, the beats, if you could call them that, are illogical and discordant. Ekelund's manipulations confront a smattering of sideline, negligible sounds. He tweaks small objects making them sound like they are caught adrift in a 50MPH wind upon a craggy rock garden or snow tires on open pavement. Encrusted with a startling combination of ambient science.«
- by TJ Norris, from Igloo

Tracklisting

Download Album (IDEAL018DD)
  1. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Tell Laura I Love Her
  2. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Realign then Fall
  3. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - A List of Things
  4. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - The Hills are Alive
  5. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Settling Dust
  6. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Motions of Inanimate Objects
  7. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Wires of Oh Dots
  8. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Bird, Broken
  9. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Dread
  10. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Last Words Anywhere
  11. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Dead Letters Spell Out »Alive!«