The transmission: naran ratan
The color: silver
The texture: wheat trimmings
The reaction: rash
Quietly released in 2015, our track is nestled close to the eleven-minute rewind of tasty morsel’s “Trees etc.” Described as “a collection of spirit quest music, herbaceous miniatures and beginner clarinet jams” the sounds here are soft, sometimes a bit sour. “Forevertime Journeys II” repeats the opening melodies of its sister, the opening track, amid the chuckles of forest field recordings. Every new instrument bends uncomfortably atop a soft arpeggio, stretching in gasps. I see lost children’s TV pilots, waking wildlife, a hole in the earth.
The lack of explanation for the record and identification of the artist is a fitting choice. If it was released a half century ago, it might have been a cult soundtrack, but its penchant for experimentation and analogue textures in its current context paints it more as a love letter to decayed New Age and Jazz. By resisting context, the sounds we receive feel weightless, grounded only in spirit by trees, ferns, and birdsong.
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Psetta is a Los-Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist & musician. Hailing from rural Maine, he curated two community radio shows for several years, flirting with mundane, innovative & surreal sounds.
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