Recording: Dept. of Loss

Artist: Dept. of Loss

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #98), December 3, 2024.

Dept. of Loss - [excerpt]

One genuine thrill of putting together shows for Track Could Bend is giving artits a chance to propose combinations and concepts that I never would have considered. When Phil Hamilton (battle milk, Density Creep, Determinist? Beard Closet, etc.) pitched this joint effort with Fan Wu I was surprised and intruiged, but it turned out there was definite overlap between the former's performative abrasiveness and the latter's transgressive formalism. Centred around feedback sculpted with a mic and amp (though there were also gongs, samples, voices and more in the mix there) this was, as the duo's name suggested, an exercise in exploring the pain of absence and the manifestations of the void. It also ended with some audience-participation-as-audience-confrontation, as you can see if watch the clip below through to the end:

[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday (January 7th) with sets from Lostworldsounds, future proof, and Hex-a-Decimal. And get ready for February, with two big TCB special celebrations!]