Across town, past the canal, just beyond the forest, perched atop a meager hill in an area that’s always just tinged with tan, is the newest purchase of Chicago noise outsider, Patrick Piper. There, in his recent real estate purchase, he oozes harmoniously cryptic tones in the echo of acoustic brevity and In The Aureole Of Lowness. While feeling the sockets of your skull cradle both your eyes, Patrick Piper takes timbre and natural elements of sensory deprivation to a head-phoned bent symmetry. Oh wait, did you just crick your head just a tilt to the left and gaze at your computer? Check it out, your work neighbor a desk away can hear you listening to In The Aureole Of Lowness. And they see the way you’re looking. They think you’re going to murder everyone with those eyes. Snap out of it, but continue listening. Maybe add a smile to this creep-glare you got glazing.
Decoder Magazine:
Composed of five resonating tones, which are mysterious in origin, Patrick Piper’s In the Aureole of Lowness is a droning, captivating release from Chicago’s Lillerne Tapes. There is something transcendent about the sounds on this tape as they emanate from my speakers, likely due to the hypnotic, lulling passages that drift in between the more harsher sections. The tones have a bell-like ring to them, but the effects, distortion, and general tinkering from the hands of Piper render the source material indecipherable for most of the tape’s duration. The key to this tape’s charm lies in the subtle sonic morphing that occurs occasionally makes it hard to tell when something has changed until you’re already well into the next movement, such as the deep, fuzzed out coda of the B-side. In the Aureole of Lowness is Piper’s second release, following 2013′s Echoes CD-R, and first cassette release, which displays a brilliant sense of craftsmanship in the way the song takes shape over thirty-three minutes.
credits
released April 2, 2014
All music written and produced by Patrick Piper
Recorded during Fall 2013
Photography by Maria Oba and Jesse Filian
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