Yann Novak & Eno On - Long Distance (Dragon's Eye Recordings, 2006)

1 Long Distance 19:44

Long Distance marks the first release by long time collaborators Yann Novak and Eno On (Kne'ke L-R). Recorded 1/16/06 at Kne'ke's own Audio Mosaic Studio in Madison, WI. Novak plays bass and field recordings processed via laptop, while Kne'ke relies on her Akai. This improvised piece stands as a jumping off point for an ongoing long distance collaboration.
Dragon's Eye Recordings

The label is run out of Seattle by Yann Novak and has previously showcased two tiny, perfect pieces of collaborative experimental ambient on three-inch CDRs (a third volume has yet to be released since the right packaging has still to be decided upon) under the collective rubrik "Long Distance". The first is reputed to be a collaboration between Novak and Eno On (whom I presume is from the land of Erewhon). This is an eminently minimal, spacey investigation of, well, space, with pulsars of analogue-sounding synth resonating into deep emptiness, like signals being sent out there at random and sometimes, improbably, being answered.
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Yann Novak - Dark Room (Dragon's Eye Recordings, 2006)

1 Unwind. Make Out Pt.1 9:24
2 Edges. Make Out Pt.2 10:56

Seattle’s Novak has cranked out another great release, commissioned as a soundtrack to a dance project. The dancers are blindfolded, so maybe you should cover your eyes when you listen to the tracks here. If you do, you’ll start to feel as though you’re bumping around in a room filled with empty ammunition canisters, before you get blast off on the back of an ICBM à la Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. Both sensations are better than you might imagine. So don’t be afraid.
The Wire

Seattle-based sound designer/dismantler Yann Novak has been all over the style map via his label, everything noise-infused, drone-derived, and glitch-glutted—he’s one of many little-known and underappreciated American ‘scape-artists. Too bad, too, as Dragon’s Eye has been releasing some sterling documentation on the CDR format as of late. Take these two cool lit’l 3”s. On Dark Room, Novak does a sort of reductionist riff on Merzbow, softening the blast wave with discernible atmospheres and a teeming detail of well-coordinated tings, tangs and thrums; I’d be happy if its 20-minute length were easily doubled. Up Close gets quite personal, eschewing the brash for the blippy; these alien symphonies are practically jaunty, extraterrestrial juju for Martian jukeboxes. Interstellar, and, well, quite stellar.
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