David Wallraf - Crisis And Critique: Ecologies of the Personal
Released: October 15 Based on the writings of Félix Guattari and his idea of “three ecologies,” David Wallraf’s” latest album features an incredibly long list of collaborators providing everything from prepared guitar pieces to whispers and the sound of burning nail clippings. Just reading the list seems like it would result in overly busy scenes and disjointed noise. However, as you listen through, you’ll find that everything fits together very cohesively as we are given what are essentially stitched together vignettes of the modern world with the systems that support and define it along with the crises that break them. The album opens with “End of the World, End of the Month,” a title that suggests no difference between the two and sonically produces a deep sense of foreboding and emptiness, as if either scenario in the title would feel the same. It sets out an airy and strange scene that stays consistent aside from those passing moments of chaos. As we move later into th...
