n28 (2021) 2 X CD in custom monoprint packages
Noise Wall Sessions 2020-2021. Two hours, fifteen minutes in length, double CD in individual monoprint packages, each different. Very limited, numbered edition of 50.
The mysteriously named N28 is our beloved David Lee Myers (aka Arcane Device) operating undercover but delivering the same intense, polychromatic psychetronica he’s always known for. I have it under good authority (actually from Mr Myers himself) that this double disc entry, nicked the Noisewall Sessions 2020-2021, tips its hat to the noise crowd, as it were. Well, those of you looking for the harsh hashish of Merzbow, Incapacitants, Astro, Maurizio Bianchi, or any others of similar ilk will no doubt be disappointed. Myers’ does indeed keep a nice, raw, crusty edge to his sounds on this one (not too dissimilar to his early Arcane Device missives), but what these works truly reflect, and has been a constant fundamental of his recordings over the last few years, is an obvious obsession and deep love for modular electronics and the patchwork potpourri he embraces wholeheartedly. There’s a mischievousness lurking throughout every pulse, errant tone, and awry texture popping their heads up during the lengthy duration of these six tracks, all of them chockablock with a sci-fi sensibility and multidimensional construct. “N28b” especially dazzles, the bastard cousin of Louis and Bebe Barron’s Forbidden Planet soundtrack recontextualized for the modern era, tonal oddities trodding about the planetscape with acute menace, distress signals sent out into the cosmos only to get subsumed in torrents of background radiation, the cries of stranded explorers absorbed into oscillating waves of pitchstretched malevolence, INA-GRM by way of John Carpenter. “N28d” could be Tangerine Dream’s Zeit or one of Richard Pinhas’s phased phantasias wrung through the proverbial wringer, a mirrorball refracting melting galena, reverberating factory ambiance, and machineries of joy caught in the thralls of orgasmic ecstasy. If this is in fact yet another (new) side to Myers’s effervescent, ever-surprising personae, here’s hoping this is but the beginning. Beautifully packaged in a monoprint envelope with a resealable tied clasp, and proudly minimal in its design, allowing the rugged, exploratory sounds to speak for themselves. Pretty essential, and in a limited edition of 50, so move on this one quick before it becomes rarer than hen’s teeth. - Darren Bergstein, DMG
The mysteriously named N28 is our beloved David Lee Myers (aka Arcane Device) operating undercover but delivering the same intense, polychromatic psychetronica he’s always known for. I have it under good authority (actually from Mr Myers himself) that this double disc entry, nicked the Noisewall Sessions 2020-2021, tips its hat to the noise crowd, as it were. Well, those of you looking for the harsh hashish of Merzbow, Incapacitants, Astro, Maurizio Bianchi, or any others of similar ilk will no doubt be disappointed. Myers’ does indeed keep a nice, raw, crusty edge to his sounds on this one (not too dissimilar to his early Arcane Device missives), but what these works truly reflect, and has been a constant fundamental of his recordings over the last few years, is an obvious obsession and deep love for modular electronics and the patchwork potpourri he embraces wholeheartedly. There’s a mischievousness lurking throughout every pulse, errant tone, and awry texture popping their heads up during the lengthy duration of these six tracks, all of them chockablock with a sci-fi sensibility and multidimensional construct. “N28b” especially dazzles, the bastard cousin of Louis and Bebe Barron’s Forbidden Planet soundtrack recontextualized for the modern era, tonal oddities trodding about the planetscape with acute menace, distress signals sent out into the cosmos only to get subsumed in torrents of background radiation, the cries of stranded explorers absorbed into oscillating waves of pitchstretched malevolence, INA-GRM by way of John Carpenter. “N28d” could be Tangerine Dream’s Zeit or one of Richard Pinhas’s phased phantasias wrung through the proverbial wringer, a mirrorball refracting melting galena, reverberating factory ambiance, and machineries of joy caught in the thralls of orgasmic ecstasy. If this is in fact yet another (new) side to Myers’s effervescent, ever-surprising personae, here’s hoping this is but the beginning. Beautifully packaged in a monoprint envelope with a resealable tied clasp, and proudly minimal in its design, allowing the rugged, exploratory sounds to speak for themselves. Pretty essential, and in a limited edition of 50, so move on this one quick before it becomes rarer than hen’s teeth. - Darren Bergstein, DMG
