Recording: Horseman, Pass By.

Artist: Horseman, Pass By.

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Tiki Room (Somewhere There and Mechanical Forest Sound present), March 6, 2019.

Horseman, Pass By. - [excerpt]

Havelock's Bennett Bedoukian (drums/electronics) and Ottawa's Mark Molnar (cello/electronics) returned to town in the midst of a tour celebrating the official release of their All Curses Are Mirrors, whose vinyl version is a beautiful thing with its silk-screened and letter-pressed inserts. The album has also been deliberately conceived as a recording, and something different than their live sets — whereas the latter unfold as a series of continuously-roiling simmer and shred zones, the album has more carefully-constructed standalone pieces. (The album also has a companionpiece, Under Ben Bulben, which veers from the live set in a different way with its gorgeous longform dronescape.)

This set featured the requisite peaks and valleys, channelling ghostly radio transmissions and manipulated thrums into a galloping haze.