{"id":1684,"date":"2018-09-04T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2018-12-17T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T23:19:24","slug":"we-need-no-swords-on-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2018\/09\/we-need-no-swords-on-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need No Swords on Beginners<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Need No Swords<\/a> comes back with a take on Beginners<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u2018Beginners\u2019, from San Francisco\u2019s Billy Gomberg, is prime Dinzu. An artist who draws from different experimental and underground musicking practices \u2013 ambient drift, electroacoustic composition, improvisation, and so on \u2013 Gomberg has amassed a pretty decent-sized discography over the past few years, with releases on Another Timbre, Strange Rules, Marginal Frequency and others (the muted clonks of 2016\u2019s \u2018Slight At That Contact\u2019 are a favourite round these parts). This is Gomberg\u2019s second outing for Dinzu Artefacts, following on from last year\u2019s \u2018Transition\u2019, and it amps up the fusty, fuzzy eerieness this time around to produce a creeped-out soundscape that\u2019s up there with Jandek\u2019s \u2018Ready For The House\u2019 in terms of skin-prickling spookiness. Here, muffled clunks and bangs merge with queasy, sustained tones, with ambient hum and tape hiss providing an uncomfortable translucent sheen. Everything sounds disconcertingly out of phase, as if bleeding through from a parallel dimension, the everyday life of ghosts captured accidentally by a hapless field recorder. EVP via the Tascam DR-40. Sonic ectoplasm in the Zoom. Most eye-popping of all is \u2018Seeing The Sequel First\u2019, where a plangent chorus of clangs plays out against a backdrop of subdued growls and murmurs, like some wraith gamelan playing lullabies for the beasts of the abyss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We Need No Swords comes back with a take on Beginners: \u2018Beginners\u2019, from San Francisco\u2019s Billy Gomberg, is prime Dinzu. An artist who draws from different experimental and underground musicking practices \u2013 ambient drift, electroacoustic composition, improvisation, and so on \u2013 Gomberg has amassed a pretty decent-sized discography over the past few years, with releases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[19,23,81,75,69],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-review","tag-billy-gomberg","tag-cassette","tag-digital","tag-dinzu-artefacts","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1668,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2018\/05\/beginners-out-now-on-dinzu-artefacts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":0},"title":"Beginners out now on Dinzu Artefacts!","author":"billy gomberg","date":"May 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"a new tape,\u00a0Beginners, out now on Dinzu Artefacts. synthesis, recordings. a little difference, a little repetition, a little transparency. purchase info and excerpt at Dinzu Artefacts: https:\/\/www.dinzuartefacts.com\/dnz26 the blurb: Becoming the glass in front of you, the streaks of dirt outside and hands inside define a moment or a movement,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C420&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C420&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C420&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C420&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C420&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1455,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2017\/01\/transition-dinzu-artefacts-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":1},"title":"Transition (Dinzu Artefacts 2017)","author":"billy gomberg","date":"January 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A new tape on the sound art cassette label Dinzu Artefacts, out of Los Angeles. \u00a0Field recordings & electronics, tones, moments, and distortions. https:\/\/www.dinzuartefacts.com\/#\/dnz06\/","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG-Dinzu-tape-e1484153429181.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG-Dinzu-tape-e1484153429181.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG-Dinzu-tape-e1484153429181.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BG-Dinzu-tape-e1484153429181.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1670,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2018\/05\/beginners-in-tabs-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":2},"title":"Beginners in Tabs Out","author":"billy gomberg","date":"May 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Tabs Out covers\u00a0Beginners and the rest of this batch of tapes out now from Dinzu Artefacts: Gray Lee\u00a0writes about\u00a0Beginners: A sonic playground of organic tactile sensations. 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