Seht and Stelzer - Exactly What You Lost CD"

int026 Seht & Stelzer - Exactly What You Lost CD

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This first album of cross-hemisphere hum by Seht (the nom de musique of one Stephen Clover) and Howard Stelzer emerged organically via tapes shared through the post between New Zealand and Boston over the course of a year or so. Without any spoken agenda or external organizing concept from the start, the music willed itself into a darkly psychedelic, implacably melancholy haze. A quick scramble of caffeinated tape action kicks things off, then the album rapidly dissipates into a thick, black sleep of environmental debris and humid fog. Worn loops were played into various outdoor acoustic environments (playgrounds, front porches, trees, other prosaic spots), then fed back into low-tech machines for further harmonic decay. Shapes form in the shadows and slip away as the edges blur. After a few attempts to heave itself up onto its feet, Exactly What You Lost eventually huffs its last breath and dissolves in a cavern of industrial tics

$12ppd US
$14ppd world

Praise for Exactly What You Lost:

"Well-constructed, finely paced... This is my first exposure to Seht but it’s also the finest work I’ve heard to date from Stelzer, a really strong creation. The footstep-like clops that draw the piece toward its conclusion at first seem a world away from the tape assault heard in the first track but the intrusion of raucous noise blasts in the final couple of minutes reminds the listener from whence this all has sprung. Good stuff, check it out." - Bagatellen

"... operates largely in a foggy stew of dark auras and viscous aural ooze. Decay and disintegration were consistent themes in Seht and Stelzer’s yearlong correspondence, and Exactly What You Lost shows it, with music that’s allowed to move, breathe, and, ultimately, expire... impressive in its utlilization of tape’s latent potential." - Dusted Magazine

"(Seht & Stelzer) work together perfectly, creating a singular force rather than flexing the muscles of each individual. Both basking in the sounds of magnetic tape, they are not bashful about exploiting the character of their instruments, and their vintage tone reeks of 30-year-old magnetic tape running across the heads of dusty old machinery. Seht and Stelzer have come together as a singular unit and created nothing short of a humble monster. 4/5" - Tiny Mix Tapes

"Some of Stelzer's finer cassette manipulations. At times, certainly with the highly processed field recordings, I was reminded of some of the older Hafler Trio works, but throughout this is a little more raw than that, but at the same time also with great intensity. A more than great collaboration of highly composed (as opposed to improvised) music, with great menacing drone music, field recordings and manipulated cassettes." - Vital Weekly

"There's nary a dull moment to be found. Exactly What You Lost is two people doing what they do best, together, and the results make for an album you shouldn't miss out on." - Smooth Assailing