Album Cover
Tracklisting:
1. Transcendent Unconscious / Mirrors (6:16)
2. Skinwalkers (8:01)
3. Cutting A Door / Mirrors (10:18)
Label description:
‘Whale/Taylor’, the first collaboration between Sydney-based composer Marcus Whale (Scissor Lock) and artist / filmmaker Aspen Michael Taylor, holds as its central focus a trashed underside of ambience, caked and hidden in decay and resonance. Mirroring the themes of duality and shadowing represented in its track titles and artwork, the album’s moments of repose always feel as if they’re under constant threat of being engulfed by an all-encompassing darkness.
The players:
Marcus Whale:
Voice, laptop, guitar
Sydney-based composer Marcus Whale produces music most commonly under the name Scissor Lock, a laptop-based experimental ambient music project. Other ventures have included instrumental concert composition for a number of Australian new music groups, ongoing collaborations with Oscar Vincente Slorach-Thorn (Whale & Thorn), Grant Hunter (Whale Hunter) and Aspen Michael Taylor, as well as occupying one half of electronic cut'n'paste pop duo Collarbones. Thus far, his output has concerned itself with loop and granular-based forms of manipulation, outlining the resemblances and interactions between organic and mechanised elements in music.
http://www.myspace.com/scissor0lock
Aspen Michael Taylor:
Guitar, pedals, microphone
Aspen Michael Taylor is an artist and filmmaker born in Melbourne and currently residing in Paris. He is currently completing work on his debut feature-length film ‘God Land’. His most recent work is a new 30 minute documentary entitled ‘Five Mornings’, which includes a score by Scissor Lock.
http://www.aspenmichaeltaylor.com
Marcus Whale talks about the creation of ‘Whale/Taylor’:
"In late June 2009, on a huge, inexorable sugar high, Aspen Michael Taylor and I mashed our heads into the smallest of Midian Studios' cotton-weaved rehearsal rooms. This was a few days after the first time I'd met Aspen, at a hastily-assembled night of improv sets at Melbourne bar Horse Bazaar. The ensuing hour of material produced in that room remains some of the most corrupted, restless, evil music of which I've ever been a part.
Aspen's pitchfucked guitar progressively slates, warps and folds into unnatural forms over the course of the first two tracks. Meanwhile, any semblance of my voice is granulated out of recognition, scratched into a bed of quiet digital feedback and sine tones. The final track, by contrast, draws out, lengthens, the central guitar chords exploited fully for their resonance. At its most central, this release is a crimping mess, a trashed underside of ambience, caked and hidden in decay and resonance.
'Whale/Taylor' is the first release from a continuing collaboration between Aspen and I, following his previous Kiddiepunk release, 'Milk Teeth' and a number of CD-Rs of mine released under the name Scissor Lock."
The zine:
Listen to samples from ‘Whale/Taylor’
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