At only 1 minute 20 seconds long, this minimalist ambient offshoot from Orchid Mantis mastermind Thomas Howard’s creative cauldron is a hypnotic, persuasive delight that feels like the frayed fragment from a much longer now forgotten dream. Fading in and out in its brief existence, it warbles like a degraded early computer game soundtrack being played through the announcement speakers at a run-down, provincial European railway station; it is an intriguing and beautiful little experiment in sound. There’s the characteristic crackle and fizz of the room itself that builds depth to the chiming repetitions found here where analogue synths and mournful drones pan delightfully like a whale-song-possessed mellotron. More of these ambient experiments have been promised; I for one can’t wait to hear more from Haunted Tape’s parallel universe…
Written by M.A Welsh (Misophone)
Music | Misophone (bandcamp.com)
