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LOW STOCK LEVEL
1-2 Weeks
01. S S S S - Deserter
02. S S S S - A Tunnel Of Dense Fog
03. S S S S - The Walls, The Corridors, The Baffles
04. S S S S - Shifting Places I
05. S S S S - Shifting Places II
06. S S S S - Anywhere Is Better Than Here
07. S S S S - And All Of This Can Be Broken
08. S S S S - Nothing But The Circulation Of Air
ARTIST
TITLE
Walls, Corridors, Baffles
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
PE 017LP PE 017LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/19/2019

Walls, Corridors, Baffles is the debut album of Swiss musician and producer Samuel Savenberg, aka S S S S. Following various releases on Haunter Records, aufnahme+wiedergabe, and Hallow Ground, his LP on Präsens Editionen tries to find an approach to an artistic expression beyond tropes of darkness, harshness, and excess. Thus, the aesthetic of Walls, Corridors, Baffles is radically and uncompromisingly sober. Instead of focusing on a conceptual or symbolic treatment of sound as an abstraction, Savenberg emphasizes its materiality. The album consists of eight pieces strung together into a manifesto which calls for a febrile embrace of an unheard-of, intense sobriety. In Walls, Corridors, Baffles, unadulterated percussive force meets an astoundingly precise and frugal vocabulary of electroacoustic sounds, as for example on the opener "Deserter". Passages extended over long melodies invite the listener to lose oneself in the contrastive emptiness. Central to the work are the affective qualities of the music which lapses only at moments into a more defined emotional quality -- as on the final track "Nothing But The Circulation Of Air". Edition of 300.