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Day For Night

Day For Night

a review by Cormac of
release format Day For Night by Peter Cusack, Max Eastley (CD Album)

text

With the popularity of the opening Peep Show on mainly european radio stations Day For Night happened to come together bringing with it 25 years worth of collected sounds dating from 1975 to 2000 by "favourite sound" archivist Peter Cusack and sound sculpturist Max Eastley.

The title, Day For Night, is taken from a filming technique whereby, as Eastley explains, "You put a filter over the camera during daytime and it looks like night". This process also conjures up other notions; the way in which one can enjoy the experience for example, "I think some of the tracks are very tangible and some are very much interiors to do with the mind, you know, sort of spaces with which you can use your imagination."

The preluding Peep Show, as the title suggests, provides a fleeting glimpse into a collection of sounds that exist in separate sonic worlds. Opening with a harmless bonfire night, the mechanism of an old brass clock (without the chime) winds itself up, opening our anticipations to a collection of other fascinating sounds as varied and as rich as you can hope for: broken glass being brushed along inside a 5,000 square foot area with a clean electic guitar waterfalling down through the whole space; stretched elastics ripping through fresh forest air. The track acts as an excellent prelude to pure, raw and hardcore sounds. Sounds that would take 25 years to compile. Sounds that people might not hear in a lifetime.

And within the remaining tracks we are not let down neither in terms of density of structure nor richness and variation of sounds: rotting carcasses with deers barking a Lord of the Flies soundtrack; Japzenlike made instruments warming wind into spiritual bliss; the ferocious sub-bass inside a nest of wasps. This is nature cranked up to 11.

Purposefully underexplained in the sleevenotes each new listen awares the listener to new things taking place making this disc a real stodger. Played in your home it seems to bring the outside in. As Eastley states, "Some of the tracks are landscapes and obviously some are interiors".

Posted by Cormac at 00:00, 01 Jun 2001