Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly - Multiple Park
From bones to life, Cheryl E. Leonard channels past existence to present ears. On this newest release titled Multiple Park, Cheryl E. Leonard works with Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) creating a new depth seldomly reached by two artists reach with such rare and special affinity. Time has traveled back. We listen through fossils, using their long held DNA to experience an aural glimpse of distant existence. Conduits of water and wind shaping molecular constructs both then and now. The artist's state of mind hold all the truth in these sounds. Using instruments preserved from the geologic ages provides gorgeous substantiality. A connection of preserved beauty carried forth to create a uniquely new exquisiteness.
Cheryl E. Leonard creates sound beyond what most would classify as music. Wobbly joins suit and radiantly augments this precept. Blending perfectly, it is difficult to discern the different contributions made by each artist. Electronics and fashioned instruments blurring into a world completely unknown. Together, these artists build an imaginative landscape that is unparalleled in sound we can experience today. A distant time void of humans, a place of evolutionary origins tolling like a seasoned church bell. The nostalgia connects with the primordial bindings we are all made of.
Because this is important, the description used for recording these selections follows....
"The first three tracks originated as late night radio broadcasts, and were carefully reedited from the duo’s performances on Negativland’s legendary "Over The Edge" program. Source material for the album’s centerpiece was recorded in three California parks, ranging from deeply urban to abandoned to entirely wild. The result is one “Multiple Park,” filled with noises simultaneously abstract yet bound to the physical events that generated them. Riding a line between a secret history of electronic music that aspires to birdsong, and those dedicated to the preservation of vanishing biophonies, Multiple Park is a visceral meditation on the sounds of “the outdoors,” and how those sounds are changed and framed by our technologically accelerating lives."
Copies of Multiple Park are available from Gilgongo Records out of Tempe, Arizona. This is a beautiful vinyl edition with stunning artwork. As a music listener, i would say these are the sounds so natural and part of our inner selves, but they are still vastly ahead of most listeners comprehension. Thank you Cheryl E. Leonard and Jon Leidecker for sharing a sonic love that will be most truly valued in generations to come.
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