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Alocasia Garden: Visitor

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Artist: Alocasia Garden (@)
Title: Visitor
Format: Tape
Label: Vanity Pill Tapes (@)
Outlined as the first full length album from Alocasia Garden (the moniker of UK-based experimental musician Reece Thomas Green), "Visitor" bears exactly 4 lengthy pieces, thick with spacious and out of reach tonalities. Featuring "Creations of Man" and "Visitor", the A side seems to spend the first part of the album building upon an immersive and intimate sonic fact, demanding you to just hang there on every processed tone and witness time as it speeds up or slows down according to your own mindset. It's this A side that brings a kind of fleshliness to the scene, with its confrontational recordings of sound that push their hypnotic potential to the very point where you can almost visualize their impetuous rhythms while also being propelled to the more bruising B side. With "Someone Else's Memories", noises are colliding to crack and drift through your brain. Even the title of this piece seems the right one for what you are listening to: insidious yet sharp blasts of postindustrial noise mapping your surroundings and allowing you, as a listener, to plug in. But, somewhere in the "back", there is also a more melodic tune, well disguised by droning synthscapes and still lurking in "Abrasions". This final track might also be the most elusive one, fading out as it is and meandering through cavernous atmospheres. A steadfast and distinct listen, "Visitor" delivers sound modulations that make you forget you were listening to them in the first place simply because you might end up thinking that they have always been there, live scoring your daily movements. With art also by Reece Thomas Green, "Visitor" comes pressed on 20 copies of black cassette housed in a clear case, with card printed covers and hand stamped labels. Overall, I think this small cassette label, Vanity Pill Tapes, is something that might just be worth "pinning" down and sharing with other analog aficionados.

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