Photo: Dagny Kleber Rrill Bell’s new mix shares some of his work in progress and a preview of his upcoming solo LP on Elevator Bath (among other things). Using a custom-made kit composed of cast-off relics of the Tape Age (foremost among them his trusty modified Fostex analogue multi-tracker) and surrounded by piles of cassettes, Rrill Bell assembles complex abstract emotive tone poems on the fly, one re-contextualized fragment at a time, drawing from the formative inspirations of radical scratch culture, Cagean thought, early tape music, musique concrete and various strains of free music practice. Tracklist: Field recording, Krossinsee, Berlin, summer 2019 “The Evenest Number” (performed by Tape Measure Kid, from Zero is an Even Number, Denovali, 2013)* “Apprehension Dub” (unreleased, work in progress) Untitled, recorded live in Wroclaw (Poland), 2016 Untitled (work in progress, rough mix from Secret Order of the Harmolodic Loner, 2021) “…aus den hohlen Waben // …from the Hollow Comb” (excerpt, preview from Ballad of the External Life, Elevator Bath, 2020) “Bellmaker’s Bluff” (work in progress, rough mix from False Flag Rapture, 2021) “…aus den hohlen Waben // …from the Hollow Comb” (excerpt, preview from Ballad of the External Life, Elevator Bath, 2020) *features Hellmut Neidhardt (aka N.) on guitar
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Rrill Bell’s new mix shares some of his work in progress and a preview of his upcoming solo LP on Elevator Bath (among other things).

Using a custom-made kit composed of cast-off relics of the Tape Age (foremost among them his trusty modified Fostex analogue multi-tracker) and surrounded by piles of cassettes, Rrill Bell assembles complex abstract emotive tone poems on the fly, one re-contextualized fragment at a time, drawing from the formative inspirations of radical scratch culture, Cagean thought, early tape music, musique concrete and various strains of free music practice.

Tracklist:

Field recording, Krossinsee, Berlin, summer 2019

“The Evenest Number” (performed by Tape Measure Kid, from Zero is an Even Number, Denovali, 2013)*

“Apprehension Dub” (unreleased, work in progress)

Untitled, recorded live in Wroclaw (Poland), 2016

Untitled (work in progress, rough mix from Secret Order of the Harmolodic Loner, 2021)

“…aus den hohlen Waben // …from the Hollow Comb” (excerpt, preview from Ballad of the External Life, Elevator Bath, 2020)

“Bellmaker’s Bluff” (work in progress, rough mix from False Flag Rapture, 2021)

“…aus den hohlen Waben // …from the Hollow Comb” (excerpt, preview from Ballad of the External Life, Elevator Bath, 2020)

*features Hellmut Neidhardt (aka N.) on guitar

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