Dave Fuglewicz & Michael Thomas Jackson - The Sky Is Glowing (Split)

Close to two years ago, Lost in a Sea of Sound had the pleasure of enjoying a Dave Fuglewicz listening experience. This was facilitated by the label No Part of It and their release of Dave Fuglewicz - Selected Works, 1990​-​1997. Now, No Part of It has released The Sky Is Glowing. This selection is a thirty minute piece with the source, Michael Thomas Jackson's "Moog and turntable, Nov and Dec 2011", being sent to Dave Fuglewicz, who in turn worked with original sounds to create The Sky Is Glowing. The opening selection titled Disintegrating Mirrors was also created under the same process, but this was many years earlier. Disintegrating Mirrors was released on a 2009 disc titled Botanical Isotopes : Phyllocephala Refoliated, a collection of different artists rework Michael Thomas Jackson's "Phyllocephala". Together, the shorter opening track and almost half hour title track make the first half of this split artist release. 

The two selections of the first half of the split are similar, but with the title piece being longer, there is so much more roaming room. Dave Fuglewicz has spacious time to hang within certain frequencies. Any changes in sonic timbre are more delicate (if you can say this about swirling electronic tones and static). There is a point, about half way through The Sky Is Glowing, where everything sounds completely alien. Not just from somewhere else but more like listening to a dialogue of communication. Spectacularly chilling and sounds you don't listen to half way. When attention is distracted, The Sky Is Glowing becomes only background noise. With some degree of focus, your imagination has sonic affinity to really roll. 

The split of this release comes with the second selection by Arvo Zylo & David Oakspawn. The Night Letter, the third track, follows suite with Dave Fuglewicz & Michael Thomas Jackson's first half. A floor of low humming industrial energy saturated with bubbles of fluctuating static overtures. Another shudder in the night of hidden cries and conscious upheaval. Thin Places was originally released by the Personal Archives label out of Iowa, on cassette and on super small run of only thirty three. This was an early 2022 composition titled Mirages Against Concrete, a project of Blood Rhythms with Arvo Zylo & David Oakspawn as the artists in this version. Absolutely fluid, as with all selections heard up to this point on the disc. Thin Places seems to be slightly more annihilatory with the sonic presence working as clean up from whats is left from before. This might not make sense, other than the fact Thin Places has less emptiness and more annulment lurking in the aural fibers. 

The last selection is only from the physical purchase. Titled Refrigerator Crickets, a ten minute piece with like mindedness to the four preceding selections. This is credited to David Oakspawn & Arvo Zylo from their Blood Brain Barrier release and is a fitting ten minute finale to this massive body of work. 

Released on No Part of It and currently available. There were only a few physical copies remaining when this was written but checking again, they are sold out. Digital is available to listen and purchase. 

 

 

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