Day For Night
(Paradigm Discs - PD14) CD $12.00
The foundation of this work consists of location recordings layered with the live or recycled sounds of Eastley's kinetic sculpture, delicate and elegant kinetic sound devices, either motor driven or animated by environmental forces like the wind, streams or the sea. "A brilliant tape-collage suite," says our friend Ed Pinsent from The Sound Collector. " 'Peep Show' mixes a firework display, a marching band, insects buzzing and snatches and samples of music and sound. 'Zero Day to Zero Night' has a bonfire, birdsong and a wild dog.... Peter Cusack is a veteran improviser on stringed instruments, including the guitar and bouzouki, both of which he plays here.... 'Cast' [is] a documentary tape from the factory floor with added layers of droning music. Most sublimely ... 'Arc Light' ... presumably features the electroacoustic monochord - without doubt a device of Eastley manufacture.... 'Shade 1' and 'Shade 2' ... are the most haunting...; both suggest stations on a surreal train-journey worthy of De Chirico."