Slow Down Tiger, by Dan Melchior

Slow Down Tiger

by Dan Melchior

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	1.	Tongues 19:06
	2.	Hospital Poem 19:19

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Dan Melchior subjects himself to long and complicated process of temporarily ignoring music’s No Exit — song structure. While his apprenticeship in that increasingly nostalgic moat was hardly time ill-spent and did indeed serve him well, Melchior’s alternate trajectory is elsewhere, as evidenced by his exquisite A Squirrel Could Never Be A Disappointment To Me (Chocolate Monk 2013) and the astral crop circularity of The Lloyd Pack. On Slow Down Tiger, the forces of centrifuge, gravity and vacuums form a welcoming committee at the gates of dark plumbing otherwise known as Beyond.

The first piece congeals into a grand mosaic, a kind of reverse Pangaea of mostly dissenting voices — a welcome new outpost in the cluttered frontier of found sound tape composition that includes such lucid beacons as Daniel Steven Crafts’s Soap Opera Symphony, Frank Bedal’s track on the LAFMS comp Blorp Essette, Gus Coma’s double CD on Paradigm, and Tempo Furioso by Martin Davorin Jagodic. The obvious touchstone of the second track is minimalist drone à la Basinski, Harold Budd, or Tony Conrad, though Melchior’s very personal approximation of the subtlest of ectoplasmic melodies repeated over and over ends up more dissonant and darker than one would expect. With its tightly arranged, graceful marbling, as if restrained by a massage therapist, this elegant sausage would make the ideal soundtrack for an all-Lego remake of Solaris.

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released August 4, 2016

All instruments: Dan Melchior
Recorded at Tiger God Ink!, Durham, NC, between February and June 2013
Musical Direction: Commodore Dworn and his Mouse Sluts

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