https://beachers.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-endlessness-of-endlessness
Genre: Experimental
Rating: 4/5
released on bandcamp February 28, 2022
I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden
From Beachers’ bandcamp notes: The tracks reimagine routines to pass the time, from lonely guitar jams to fidgety rituals. Maybe it’s a time album? Maybe it’s a loneliness album? Maybe it’s a boredom album?
Time moves strangely here. The flow has gone. Or maybe it’s only flow?
“Little by little I started divorcing myself from everyone I had known in my life before solitary. I would live in fantasies. I would create relationships with imaginary people, and I’d fall in love with them, sometimes for months. Like, I’d be in a store, knocking on melons to find a ripe one, and that’s how I would meet somebody. We’d have a date, and I’d be a regular person. I imagined what kind of husband I’d be, what kind of father. Even that got to be so painful because there’s nothing so miserable as unrequited love.”
– Frank De Palma (prisoner who spent 22 years in Solitary)
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/05/30/i-developed-agoraphobia-in-prison
I feel like there were a lot of silver linings to the pandemic that’s still killing 1000 Americans everyday but it is but is now spoken about in the past tense. People complain about having to slow down while I feel we never slowed down nearly enough. I remember my fantasies, early on, about everything shutting down indefinitely and how morally and spiritually correct that sounded, virus or no virus.
EVERYBODY FUCKING STOP!!!
I’ve heard many excellent bed room releases where the artist writes this is something I did during lockdown. Beachers was actually isolating with covid. The virus was running its course within him while he was making this.
Field recording and ambient have a lot of crossover for good reason. I guess “found sounds” is a way of saying field recordings without necessarily going out into the field. This though feels like the bedroom was the field and his search into the small revealed how big things can come in small packages. There’s a lot there. And whether he enjoyed isolating or not he went on an expedition of the very local. Also, good ambient music that successfully incorporates tradition instruments gets more brownie points.
Busted out the old bass/heavy breathing knocks it where it already was: Home. Love this track and the entire album.
Warmth Highest 