{"id":1690,"date":"2018-11-01T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:04:05","slug":"recent-mentions-in-dusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2018\/11\/recent-mentions-in-dusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent mentions in Dusted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My recent tape Beginners and digital collection of live recordings both get some words out of Bill Meyer at Dusted:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>Billy Gomberg is no beginner. He\u2019s been releasing music of his own and with Fraufraulein, a duo with Anne Guthrie, for nearly a decade. And the sound sources he uses on this tape are familiar ones \u2014 electric bass, urban field recordings, synthesizer and hand-manipulated objects. Even so, it feels like something new is happening here. Gomberg\u2019s music has often seemed to stretch away from the listener, luring you to follow it through virtual expanses of space and time. Now it seems closer at hand, the sounds like sunning fish just under a pond\u2019s surface. They\u2019re simultaneously more recognizable and more processed that what he\u2019s played in the past, creating a discreet reality that never quite loses its mystery no matter how often you play it.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/dustedmagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/178764189251\/dust-volume-4-number-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In his summary of his Voting Rights Day shopping on Bandcamp, Bill found my bundle of live sets to defy his &#8220;not quite a physical object&#8221; rule:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Well, there go the rules. This DL-only compilation of concert performances by one of my favorite ambient recording artists of recent years shows that the carefully wrought, ultra-deep atmosphere of his recent cassettes is no fluke. (<a href=\"http:\/\/dustedmagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/179456848855\/voting-with-our-ears-dusted-spends-the-rent-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent tape Beginners and digital collection of live recordings both get some words out of Bill Meyer at Dusted: Billy Gomberg is no beginner. He\u2019s been releasing music of his own and with Fraufraulein, a duo with Anne Guthrie, for nearly a decade. And the sound sources he uses on this tape are familiar [&hellip;]<\/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":[91,19,23,81,71,28,69],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-review","tag-ambient","tag-billy-gomberg","tag-cassette","tag-digital","tag-dusted","tag-music","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1630,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2017\/11\/heavy-objects-in-dusted\/","url_meta":{"origin":1690,"position":0},"title":"Heavy Objects in Dusted&#8230;","author":"billy gomberg","date":"November 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"the word from Bill Meyer at Dusted: Who plays the music and who deals with the baby? New-ish parents Billy Gomberg and Anne Guthrie had to deal with that question as they made Heavy Objects, and that circumstance offers one explanation for the tape\u2019s restraint. While a French horn, bass\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;fraufraulein&quot;","block_context":{"text":"fraufraulein","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/category\/fraufraulein\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1189,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2015\/07\/billmeyerdusted-extinguishment\/","url_meta":{"origin":1690,"position":1},"title":"Bill Meyer\/Dusted on &#8220;Extinguishment&#8221;","author":"billy gomberg","date":"July 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Meyer writes on \u201cExtinguishment\u201d via Dusted: \u201c\u2026their collaboration confounds the rules of addition so that more seems like less. Even when they\u2019re the only ones making sounds on Extinguishment, they seem to be small parts of something larger.\u201d http:\/\/dustedmagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/123373791726\/fraufraulein-extinguishment-another-timbre complete review\u00a0below: Anne Guthrie (French horn, electronics, field recordings) and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;fraufraulein&quot;","block_context":{"text":"fraufraulein","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/category\/fraufraulein\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1818,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2021\/04\/solum-in-dusted\/","url_meta":{"origin":1690,"position":2},"title":"Solum in Dusted","author":"billy gomberg","date":"April 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Bryon Hayes writes up Solum in the ever-reliable Dusted: Fraufraulein\u2019s music is immersive. Anne Guthrie and Billy Gomberg beam themselves, and us along with them, Quantum Leap-style directly into multiple environments in medias res. 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