1 I’m Asleep On The Floor While Sunbeams Grace My Tired Head
2 Gone, Away…
3 Warmth
4 And When We Die, God Makes Angels Of Us All
5 Golden
6 To Felixstowe
Dernière production en date de Dag Rosenqvist, toujours d'excellents drones où s'immerger....
A six-track EP release on new label Fenetre Records, Closet Ghosts follows on from Dag Rosenqvist's Black Sleep album, released six months or so back via Miasmah. These compositions call upon a similar blend of sensitive acoustics and immersive electronics, although at times Rosenqvist seems to unplug from his computer altogether and opt for bare, spartan purely instrumental interludes like 'Golden', which leaves a lonely piano figure to its own devices, stretching out loose chords and contemplative exchanges over the course of a frozen minute. 'Gone Away...' brings to mind the more post-rock oriented aspects of Rosenqvist's work, isolating acoustic guitar passages so clean they might be equally at home in a De La Mancha record as in a Jasper TX outing. Eventually the music weaves itself into droning spirals of distortion and delay, fizzing below the surface and petering out almost as quickly as they built up, leaving a lonely acoustic guitar to wend its way to the ending. In terms of the more drone-like pieces on the disc, 'I'm Asleep On The Floor While Sunbeams Grace My Tired Head' is indicative of the powerful, unsentimental driving force behind this music: these aren't fluffy, lightweight drones but coarse, clanking outpourings of sound. You have to look beneath the surface to find any glimmers of emotional resonance, but there's always a real depth lurking behind that stark, abrasive facade. 'Warmth' stays true to its title and opens up, revealing stretches of infinite tone and glacial tunefulness, but the two finest pieces here are 'And When We Die, God Makes Angels Of Us All' and the stunning closing track 'To Felixstowe'. Both represent a finely harmonised union of faded electronic sustains and carefully plotted out, organic melodies, with the former sounding like a Jewelled Antler take on Mogwai while the latter is like a slowed-down Loren Connors blues solo. Closet Ghosts is a great way to spend twenty minutes of your life. Highly recommended.
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