crou034: Hal Rammel: Like Water Tightly Wound 10″

CROUTON NO.34
Hal Rammel
“Like Water Tightly Wound”
10″

Visual artist and musician Hal Rammel has been involved in the creative arts for the past 40 years. “Like Water Tightly Wound” marks Rammel’s latest installment of his recorded documentation of solo Sound Palette studies. Beginning with a series of three separate 7″ records (titled LOST DATA), released on his own Penumbra Music in early 2006, “Like Water Tightly Wound” captures every nuance of this intriguing instrument. Invented and built by Rammel, these instruments are as curious for their sounds, as they are as artifacts - finely crafted wood and metal devices one would expect to find in an obscure section of a museum. Melodic, yet buzzing with texture, these Sound Palette recordings represent an overview of artistic endeavor, ranging from electro-acoustic theory and practice, to sculpture and craftsmanship.

“I’ve let the form of the palette be my launching point for opening possibilities and followed the road of possibility. That is the advantage of mixing media, that music might be shaped by a sculptural form rather than the instrument shaped to play any preconceived notion of what should be musical.” - Hal Rammel

Released in a limited, numbered edition of 300 with an exclusive photographic print by Hal Rammel. Extended liner notes included, housed inside an antiqued-themed 78 record package.

Reviews:

“This is music for which descriptions are useless - a record that by its existence alone fails a description merely in words. Accompanied by a photograph of his invention and a detailed description of the process, it comes as beautifully packaged as the music contained inside. In a nutshell, an instant classic record.” - GAZ-ETA

“The music retains a ruminative character but balances careful consideration with a willingness to just let things happen and see what transpires. The results are simply lovely, deep and, for some of us, intensely nostalgic.” - Bagatellen