<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=10814" class="">http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=10814</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Composer Mike Vernusky turns the ear into a microscope in MotherSpeak.
Taking us through the African bush via electronics, field recordings,
and a live performance in that very environment, the album bleeds like
its listeners. “Vibrational Empire” sets the tone with insect-oriented
signals, speaking not through words but through patterns of air and
movement. Like the rice thrown across the ring before a sumo match
begins, it delineates the space as sacred before its primal struggles
begin. Only here, the contest isn’t between flesh but time. “Of Leaf And
Mud” renders a crisper landscape of wind infused with whispers of human
intervention before a chorus of frogs scrawls its messages across
mental slate. “Eyes Aquatic” breathes underwater and measures depth in
metaphysical terms. The only available method of communication respires
beyond the threshold of lips and tongue, and relies instead on the music
of something inherently physiological. “Clipping The Wind Stave”
deepens this shape of water, funneling rain into the open mouth of a
dying architecture, as if the very scaffolding of humanity were folding
in on itself. All of which makes “Unmistakable Plumage” feel all the
more alien, as a testimony avails us with its humanity. A man tells of
his guidance, his upbringing, and his family as a way of unraveling the
filament of local consciousness. This is the real linkage between South
Africa and Botswana promised in the album’s press release, rendered not
by cartography but by the memories of those whose feet have compacted
the soil. Backgrounding this narrative—indeed, telling a story all its
own—are the sounds Vernusky has collected. Sounds that others might
gloss over or ignore outright, expendable in their lack of meaning, yet
which in this context are more lucid than ever. They seem to say: All of
creation is an indivisible mixture of semiotic impulses rotting like
neglected machines until all that’s left is the soul.<br class=""><br class="">These sonic
films live somewhere at the center of our listening. One can almost
sense them running down the spine in search of entry, for they are a
nervous system unto themselves, activating limbs and sensations of which
the earth is only a single organ. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB084/AB084.htm" class="">http://www.audiobulb.com/albums/AB084/AB084.htm</a> out on 20th feb 2019 on <a href="http://www.audiobulb.com" class="">www.audiobulb.com</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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