Been meaning to revisit Brighton’s eclectic cassette imprint Third Kind records for a while now. Latest to feature on their esteemed catalogue a quite remarkable and wonderfully packaged gold hot foil stamped box, which when opened reveals two cassettes and a lovely looking A4 art card. As the title might suggest, ‘Laika and other works’ is a gathering of releases by Elizabeth Veldon – comprised of two and a half hours’ worth of piano compositions, drone recitals and spoken word monologues, the set includes the complete sets ‘Laika’ and ‘Milton Road to Nepal (For Ghoti)’ as well as ”The Scottish Fisheries’, ‘Darwin Cut Ups for Hobart’, ‘We Will Never Leave You’ and a brand-new companion piece to ‘Laika’. Really is a most intimate reading, which for now our ears have locked upon the chamber tones of ‘over the water’ which across its ten minute stay is awash in all manner of treated piano motifs and strangely abrupt metering, itself veering between moments of genteel passiveness to the turbulent eruptions which in some way, I’m minded to say, perfectly mirror and compliment the whole solemn, remote and reflectively melancholy nature of the water / sea in so much that beneath the tranquility a confused emotion rages beneath the calming surface ripples. https://thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/laika-other-works
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